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Turning 100: Lebanon, a nation branded by upheaval, crises

by Associated Press
| August 31, 2020 12:03 AM

BEIRUT (AP) — It was a century ago on Sept. 1, 1920, that a French general, Henri Gouraud, stood on the porch of a Beirut palace surrounded by local politicians and religious leaders and declared the State of Greater Lebanon — the precursor of the modern state of Lebanon.

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