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Lebanese Civil War

1975–1990 conflict in Lebanon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Lebanese Civil War was a multifaceted armed conflict fought in Lebanon from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 120,000 deaths, displaced nearly one million people, and caused widespread destruction across the country.

Editorial summary

“Lebanese Civil War” enters the record as 1975–1990 conflict in Lebanon. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lebanese, Civil and conflict can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lebanese, Civil and conflict.
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Why this record matters

“Lebanese Civil War” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lebanese, Civil and conflict provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1975 and 1990.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Lebanese Civil War primary sources, Lebanese Civil War archive and Lebanese research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lebanese Civil War” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.