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Lebanon War

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ399962 ↗
Source-derived summary

The term Lebanon War can refer to:

Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), including:

Hundred Days' War (1978)

1978 South Lebanon conflict (first Israeli invasion of Lebanon)

1982 Lebanon War (second Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Also called the "First Lebanon War" in Israel)

Mountain War (1983–1984)

War of the Camps (1985–1988)

South Lebanon conflict (1982–2000)

2006 Lebanon War (third Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

Editorial summary

“Lebanon War” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lebanon, Wikimedia and disambiguation 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, 1978, 1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lebanon, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Lebanon War” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lebanon, Wikimedia and disambiguation 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 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q399962. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1990, 1978 and 1982.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Lebanon 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.