The limestone mountain range that traverses huge lengths of Lebanon lent the country not just its name but beauty, diversity and a combustible political culture.
For the region's religious minorities, especially Christians and Druze, they became a sanctuary. Ensconced in remote mountain villages, the kaleidoscope of communities developed distinct identities.
How to govern such a diverse country... is unresolved to this day. The constitution recognises and apportions power across 18 official faiths.
The Lebanese civil war, from 1975 until 1990, was a hugely complex conflict that ultimately claimed the lives of at least 100,000 people, pitting Sunnis, Christians, Shia and Druze against one another.
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