LEBANON'S ORIGINS

The small region known as Lebanon is connected to both Israel and Syria. Israel being down the bottom and syria up the top.
Lebanon before it was given the name lebanon seven thousand years ago was known as phoenicia named after the phoenicians a semetic tribe known as the caananites an ancient civilization centred in the north of canaan present in Israel lebanon and syria. These tribes were popular for their skills in trading they were situated from the west coastal region also known as the fertile crescent which was a combination of western asia the nile valley and nile delta northeast africa and asia minor also known as Anotolia the  region joined between the black sea situated in the north and the mediteranian sea in the south.
The word semetic referred to  many languages native to west asia this whole region being now referred to as the middle east.
without having multi languages the phoenicians as well as other traders would be unable to sucessfully  trade and market their products around the continent and the region.
Phoenicians were popular between 1550-539BC for working with metal goods and other trades.
Their rise in wealth came between the 7th and 8th century with trade in ceramics and pottery.
the phoenician were known for creating the phoenician alphabet also known as the phonetic alphabet which was adopted by the Greeks during the 8th century.
throughout history lebanon became part of many empires among the Egyptian, empire Persian Assyrian, Hellenistic, Roman, Armenian, Eastern Roman, Arab which were a combination Umayyad, Abbasid, Fatimid. then seljuk mamluk.
Lebanon began a massive change due to the rise and fall of these empires that brought along many religions such as christianity with the rise of the roman empire during the crusades that brought along the greek orthodox and maronite however during the 7th century with the rise of the ottoman empire which brought the rise of islam.
Many years later lebanon became a french republic under the french during the french revolution.
in 1943 lebanon became independant of the french after the french occupied Germany.
many years later a civil war broke out due to sectarian divisions in 1975.