Relies mostly on global immigrants from the village returning for the holidays whether from the Lebanese cities or from abroad.

Israeli warplanes sometimes stage mock attacks on Lebanese cities, and emit sonic booms that frighten civilians.

And it is much less dependent on commercial trade and banking than was Beirut, the once-rich Lebanese city devastated by fighting.

Its journalists span not only in every Lebanese city but all around the world in the major cities and countries all over the globe.

The Lebanese cities were attached to the latter, and converted to Christianity which became the state religion in 392.

In the 1980's, Tripoli, the Lebanese city he grew up in, was dominated by a violent Islamic group.

The town is named after the Lebanese city of Tyre.

Through the ages, it evolved to become the present Lebanese city of Tripoli.

Railways connect the major Lebanese cities; several lines extend into Syria.

Old towns still form the center or core of many Lebanese cities and towns.