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Lebanon
     
Lebanon, the Lebanon
a country in the Middle East on the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria. Population: 3,727,703 (2003). Capital: Beirut. There was a long civil war in the 1970s and 1980s which did a lot of damage to the country. The economic and political situation improved during the 1990s.
—Lebanese noun, adjective
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