Territorial evolution of the Ottoman Empire

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The Ottoman Empire at that time, which was based in Anatolia, directly controlled Syria, Irak, Koweït, Jordan, Geographical Palestine, the Hedjaz (the coast of Saudi Arabia), parts of Yemen and parts of the Caucasus. As for Lebanon, only the coast and it’s cities (Beirut, Sayda, Sour and Tripoli) were directly controlled by the Ottomans, and it was like that for the vast majority of the country’s history under Ottoman rule. The interior of the country, known as Mount Lebanon, was an autonomous zone under a special system called the Mutassarifia, also known as the protocole of 1864 (it actually started in 1861 but it was revised in 1864 with some modifications). It was divided in 7 administrative regions. These were, if I am not mistaken, the Zahle, Chouf, Keserwan, Metn, Batroun, Aakar and Baabda regions. Now, in the protocole of 1864, it was forbidden for any Ottoman military units to enter the Mutassarifia, and the 5 major European powers (France, Britain, Russia, Austria-Hungary and Prussia) were the ones to guarantee this but when the Ottoman Empire entered the First World War in October 1914, the Ottoman army entered Mount Lebanon, occupied the schools, monasteries and administrative buildings, turned them into military outposts, abolished the Mutassarifia and Mount Lebanon became a standard Ottoman province, with a Muslim Mutassarif (this was the name of the ruler of the Mutassarifia, who was required to be a Catholic, non-Lebanese, Ottoman citizen by the protocol of 1864). Mount Lebanon will have 3 Muslim Mutassarif before it was freed from Ottoman rule in 1918 by the Allied forces at the end of the First World War. More on reddit.com

they wanted independence, they got it with the British conspiracy, but it was a monkey's paw wish, now they should deal with Israel or Israel should deal with them. More on reddit.com

why do they have a piece of Indonesia? More on reddit.com