Nacionalizmus, elnyomás, éhínség. Libanon az első világháborúban
Nationalism, Oppression, Famine. Lebanon in the First World War

Summary/Abstract: Although the autonomous administrative unit of the Ottoman Empire, the territory of the Lebanese highlands was not affected directly by the battles of the First World War, it thus suffered the conflict in an extraordinary way. The Ottoman governor of Damascus, Djemal Pasha, occupied the mountains in the Autumn of 1914, and abolished its autonomy the following year. In 1915, he began to systematically persecute Arab nationalists, dozens of whom were executed. Food shortages had even more serious consequences, killing more than a hundred thousand people. The situation was complicated by the claims of Middle Eastern actors (Britain, France, Arab insurgents) for Lebanon. As a result of a power bargain at the Paris Peace Conference, in 1920 France separated the territorially enlarged Lebanon from Syria and made it its mandatory territory.

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