Mandate & Independence · event 3 of 7

1943

Independence, and the National Pact. Lebanon becomes independent. An unwritten agreement distributes office by sect: a Maronite president, a Sunni prime minister, a Shia speaker. It is designed to hold a plural society together and it also institutionalises the divisions it manages.

The Mandate & Independence era

  1. 1920
  2. 1932
  3. 1943
  4. 1948
  5. 1958
  6. 1966
  7. 1968

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