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Anatolia Roman Empire Maron Monotheism Asceticism Mount Lebanon Maronites Roman-Persian Wars Sassanid Persians During The 7th Century The Muslim Arabs Conquered Syria Byzantines

By the 4th century CE, a Maronite Christian monastic tradition was established in Mount Lebanon by a hermit named Maron, focusing on monotheism and asceticism. The Maronites spread among the Lebanese people to avoid persecution and came to largely inhabit the mountains. While various empires like the Byzantines, Persians, Arabs, and Ottomans controlled the region, the Maronites maintained a high degree of autonomy. The Druze religion emerged in southern Lebanon in the 11th century, gaining followers there, as northern Mount Lebanon was ruled by Druze families until the 14th century Mamluk invasion.

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Anatolia Roman Empire Maron Monotheism Asceticism Mount Lebanon Maronites Roman-Persian Wars Sassanid Persians During The 7th Century The Muslim Arabs Conquered Syria Byzantines

By the 4th century CE, a Maronite Christian monastic tradition was established in Mount Lebanon by a hermit named Maron, focusing on monotheism and asceticism. The Maronites spread among the Lebanese people to avoid persecution and came to largely inhabit the mountains. While various empires like the Byzantines, Persians, Arabs, and Ottomans controlled the region, the Maronites maintained a high degree of autonomy. The Druze religion emerged in southern Lebanon in the 11th century, gaining followers there, as northern Mount Lebanon was ruled by Druze families until the 14th century Mamluk invasion.

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By v Anatolia, became a major center of Christianity in the Roman Empire during the early

spread of the faith. During the late 4th and early 5th century, a hermit
named Maron established a monastic tradition focused on the importance
of monotheism and asceticism, near the Mediterranean mountain range known as Mount
Lebanon. The monks who followed Maron spread his teachings among Lebanese in the
region. These Christians came to be known as Maronites and moved into the mountains to
avoid religious persecution by Roman authorities. During the frequent Roman-Persian Wars that lasted for
many centuries, the 
Sassanid Persians occupied what is now Lebanon from 619 till 629.
During the 7th century the Muslim Arabs conquered Syria establishing a new regime to
replace the Byzantines. Though Islam and the Arabic language were officially dominant
under this new regime, the general populace nonetheless only gradually converted from
Christianity and the Syriac language. The Maronite community, in particular, managed to
maintain a large degree of autonomy despite the succession of rulers over Lebanon and Syria.
During the 11th century the Druze religion emerged from a branch of Shia Islam. The new
religion gained followers in the southern portion of Mount Lebanon. The northern portion of
Mount Lebanon was ruled by Druze feudal families to the early 14th century which was then
brought to an end by the Mamluk invasion. The Maronite population increased gradually in
Northern Mount Lebanon and the Druze have remained in Southern Mount Lebanon until the
modern era. In the south of Lebanon, Jabal Amel, Baalbekand the Beqaa Valley was ruled by
Shia feudal families under the Mamluks and the Ottoman Empire. Major cities on the
coast, Acre, Beirut, and others, were directly administered by the Muslim Caliphs and the
people beca

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