The Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate was one of the Ottoman Empire's subdivisions following the 19th-century Tanzimat reform. After 1861, there existed an autonomous Mount Lebanon with a Christian Mutasarr
Painting of the Emir of Mount Lebanon Bashir II
Muhammad Ali Pasha and Bashir II
Emir of Lebanon, by József Borsos, 1843
The Occupied Enemy Territory Administration was a joint British, French and Arab military administration over the Levantine provinces – which had been part of the Ottoman Empire for four centuries – b
Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate
…3 August 1860 9 June 1861 • Ottoman occupation 1 September Preceded by Succeeded by Tripoli Eyalet Double Qaim-Maqamate of Mount Lebanon Sidon Eyalet Occupied Enemy Territory Administration Today part of Lebanon The Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate (1861–1918, Arabic: مُتَصَرِّفِيَّة جَبَل لُبْنَان, romanized: Mutaṣarrifiyyat Jabal Lubnān…
Results of the King–Crane Commission Petitions received from OETA South (became Palestine), OETA West (became Lebanon and Western Syria) and OETA East (became Syria and Transjordan); it has been described as "the first-ever survey of Arab public opinion".
This draft British Telegram of September 1919, ordering the withdrawal of British troops from the French and Arab areas of the OETA, was prepared shortly after the Franco-British conference at Deauville. The line in point 5 became known as the "Deauville Line"
Major General Sir Louis Jean Bols, KCB, DSO