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Protectorate of missions is a term for the right of protection exercised by a Christian power in a Muslim or other non-Christian country with regard to the persons and establishments of the missionari
Harun al-Rashid at left receiving a delegation sent by Charlemagne to his court in Baghdad. 1864 painting by Julius Köckert.
Francis I (left) and Suleiman the Magnificent (right) initiated a Franco-Ottoman alliance. Both were separately painted by Titian c. 1530.
Jesuit astronomers with Kangxi Emperor
The 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus, also known as the 1860 Christian–Druze war, was a civil conflict in Mount Lebanon during Ottoman rule in 1860–1861 fought mainly between the loca
Protectorate of missions
…maintained in law, and in fact, the ancient privilege of France in the protection of the missionaries and Christian communities of the Orient. In 1860 conflict broke out between the local Druze and Christians at Mount Lebanon. The unrest spread leading to riots and mob violence which devastated the Christian quarter of Damascus. Following the massacres and an international…
The ruins of the Christian quarter of Damascus in 1860
Christian Church and Druze Khalwa in the Chouf area of Mount Lebanon. Historically, the Druze and the Christians in the Chouf lived in harmony.
Christian militiamen of Mount Lebanon
An 1857 sketch of Hasbaya, one of the main towns of the Wadi al-Taym valley and home of a branch of the Shihab dynasty