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 century.
Christian Church and Druze Khalwa in Shuf Mountains: Historically; the Druzes and the Christians in the Shuf Mountains lived in complete harmony.
Bashir Shihab II
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Bashir Shihab II was a Lebanese emir who ruled the Emirate of Mount Lebanon in the first half of the 19th century. Born to a branch of the Shihab family which had converted from Sunni Islam, the religion of previous Shihabi emirs, he was the only Maronite ruler of the Mount Lebanon Emirate.
Muhammad Ali and Bashir II
A 1961 Lebanese stamp portraying Bashir Shihab II (left) and Fakhr al-Din II (right) in commemoration of Lebanon's independence in 1946.
Inner courtyard of Beiteddine Palace