Maronites in a sentence

Ozersay said also that yesterday they visited occupied Agia Marina and Asomatos (Özhan) villages, in which Maronites used to live before the 1974 Turkish military intervention in Cyprus, and examined the basis on which they will act for the Maronites.

The Patriarch of Alexandria, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Archbishop of Armenians in Cyprus, the Bishop of Cyprus’ Catholics, the Archbishop of Maronites in Cyprus, referred to the looting of ecclesiastical treasures and efforts to repatriate them.

His forthcoming book, “Conflict on Mount Lebanon: The Druze, the Maronites and Collective Memory,” (Edinburgh University Press) covers collective identities and the Lebanese Civil War.

Perhaps it’s appropriate, then, that the Maronites first modern saviors had crusading Frankish forebears.

Levent added that he will continue his contacts and next week he will explain the formation of Turkish Cypriots, Greek Cypriots and perhaps Maronites in the ballot paper.

At the moment, a total of around 200 Maronites, mostly pensioners, live in Kormakitis and Karpasha.

Also, the Druze formed an alliance with Britain and allowed Protestant missionaries to enter Mount Lebanon, creating tension between them and the Catholic Maronites.

But European intervention pressured the Turks to treat the Maronites more justly. citation Following the recommendations of the powers, the Ottoman Porte granted Lebanon local autonomy, guaranteed by the powers, under a Christian governor.

French intervention on behalf of the Maronites did not help the Maronite national movement, since France was restricted in 1860 by Britain, which did not want the Ottoman Empire dismembered.

However, the Maronites were gradually pushed into a few strongholds and were on the verge of military defeat when the Concert of Europe intervened White (1899) and established a commission to determine the outcome.

In addition the massacre of Christians in 1860 was also one of the most notorious incidents of these centuries, when fighting between Druze and Maronites in Mount Lebanon spilled over into the city.

Jumblatt represented the increasingly disaffected Druze, who were both shut out from official power and angered at the growing ties with the Maronites by Bashir II, who was himself a Maronite Christian.

One of the most lasting effects of the Crusades in this region was the contact between the crusaders (mainly French) and the Maronites.

One of the most lasting effects of the Crusades in this region was the contact between the Franks (i.e. the French) and the Maronites.

The church exists in many parts of the Arab world and Eastern Orthodox Christians have often been noted for pan-Arab or pan-Syrian leanings; it has had less dealings with Western countries than the Maronites.

The French accepted the Druze as having established control and the Maronites were reduced to a semi-autonomous region around Mt Lebanon, without even direct control over Beirut itself.

The Maronites, however, were insistent in their demands.

The original number of these immigrants was small but it grew larger when a confrontation erupted between a Muslim religious sect and the Christian Maronites.

These initial contacts led to centuries of support for the Maronites from France and Italy, even after the fall of the Crusader states in the region.

These initial contacts led to centuries of support for the Maronites from France and Italy, even after the later fall of the Crusader states in the region.