lebanon

1. An Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean (synset 108977154)
   domain member region:

   • tabbouleh, tabooli - a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat
   • asbat al-ansar, band of partisans - an extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism; responsible for murders and bombings; seeks to overthrow the Lebanese government and control Palestinian refugee camps; funded by al-Qaeda
   • abu nidal organization, ano, arab revolutionary brigades, black september, fatah revolutionary council, fatah-rc, revolutionary organization of socialist muslims - a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
   • force 17 - formed in 1972 as a personal security force for Arafat and other PLO leaders; became one of PLO's elite units; has built an extensive infrastructure of terrorist cells and weapon depots in Europe while attacking Israeli targets
   • hezbollah, hizballah, hizbollah, hizbullah, islamic jihad, islamic jihad for the liberation of palestine, lebanese hizballah, organization of the oppressed on earth, party of god, revolutionary justice organization - a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon
   • jabat al-tahrir al-filistiniyyah, palestine liberation front, plf - a terrorist group formed in 1977 as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; became a satellite of al-Fatah; made terrorist attacks on Israel across the Lebanese border
   • popular struggle front, psf - a terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in 1967 but now have close relations with al-Fatah; staged terrorist attacks against Israel across the Lebanese border
   is an instance of: asian country, asian nation - any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent
   member holonym: lebanese - a native or inhabitant of Lebanon
   belongs to: arab league - an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation
   has:

   • bayrut, beirut, capital of lebanon - capital and largest city of Lebanon; located in western Lebanon on the Mediterranean
   • tarabulus, tarabulus ash-sham, trablous, tripoli - a port city and commercial center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea
   • saida, sayda, sidon - the main city of ancient Phoenicia
   • sur, tyre - a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks
   • byblos - an ancient Mediterranean seaport that was a thriving city state in Phoenicia during the second millennium BC; was the chief port for the export of papyrus; located in Lebanon to the north of Beirut; now partially excavated
   is a part of:

   • middle east, mideast, near east - the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century
   • asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
   same as: lebanese republic

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