The Double Qaim-Maqamate of Mount Lebanon was one of the Ottoman Empire's subdivisions following the abolishment of the Mount Lebanon Emirate. After 1843, there existed an autonomous Mount Lebanon wit
Omar Pasha – Lithograph
Klemens von Metternich, architect of the Kaimakamat System.
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, a British orientalist who lived for 29 years in Mount Lebanon and had a prominent role in igniting the Druze revolt against the Egyptians and fueling sectarian hatred between the Druze and Christians.
Christian refugees during the 1860 strife
Emirate of Mount Lebanon
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The Emirate of Mount Lebanon was a part of Mount Lebanon that enjoyed variable degrees of partial autonomy under the stable suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire between the mid-16th and the early-19th cen
Double Qaim-Maqamate of Mount Lebanon
…مَقَامِيَّتَيْن; Al-Qāʾim maqāmiyyatayn, lit. 'The Double Qaim-Maqamate') was one of the Ottoman Empire's subdivisions following the abolishment of the Mount Lebanon Emirate. After 1843, there existed an autonomous Mount Lebanon with a Christian and a Druze subdivision, which have been created as a homeland for the Maronite…
Emir of Lebanon, by József Borsos, 1843.
Christian Church and Druze Khalwa in Shuf Mountains: Historically; the Druzes and the Christians in the Shuf Mountains lived in complete harmony.