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cannabis_flower

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15. Actually..
Thu Apr 27, 2017, 06:50 PM
Apr 2017

at the time that they left, or shortly thereafter, Lebanon was part of Syria.

Lebanon was part of the Ottoman Empire for over 400 years, in a region known as Greater Syria, until 1918 when the area became a part of the French Mandate of Syria following World War I. On September 1, 1920, France formed the State of Greater Lebanon as one of several ethnic enclaves within Syria.


http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question94065.html


I believe my relatives call themselves Syrian but they were actually from the area that became Lebanon.

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