MARONITE

Definition: MARONITE

MARONITE

Noun

1. One of a body of nominal Christians, who speak the Arabic language, and reside on Mount Lebanon and in different parts of Syria. They take their name from one Maron of the 6th century.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: MARONITE

Books

• Early Syriac Theology: With Special Reference to the Maronite Tradition (reference)

• Le patriarcat maronite et la question libanaise dans les textes de Sa Bâeatitude le patriarche Mãar Nasrallah-Pierre Sfeir : anthologie (reference)

• Maronite Historians of Medieval Lebanon (Publication of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Oriental Series, No. 34.) (reference)

• Maronite music (reference)

• Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon: The Khazin Sheiks and the Maronite Church (1736-1840) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Traditional Maronite Chants (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Children

Cyprus

Despite improvements in living conditions for Greek Cypriots and Maronites, no Greek-language educational facilities for Greek Cypriot or Maronite children in the north exist beyond the elementary level. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cyprus

However, Maronite residents also must pay the required crossing fees. (references)

Cyprus

Members of Jehovah's Witnesses and Maronite parents can request that their children be excused from such instruction. (references)

Economic History

Cyprus

Religions: Greek Orthodox, Muslim, Maronite, Roman Catholic, Armenian Orthodox. (references)

Lebanon

With these aims in mind, Israeli forces drove 25 miles into Lebanon, moving into East Beirut with the support of Maronite Christian leaders and militia. (references)

Syria

Lebanon was part of post-Ottoman Syria until 1926. The presence of Syrian troops in Lebanon dates to 1976, when President Asad intervened in the Lebanese civil war on behalf of Maronite Christians. (references)

Minorities

Cyprus

In May 1999, a Maronite house in the village of Asomatos was demolished by the Turkish military. (references)

Lebanon

In October a Greek Orthodox church in Tripoli and the Saint Elias Maronite Church in Sidon were bombed. (references)

Lebanon

On October 3, 1999, one person was killed when a bomb exploded in a Maronite church in an eastern Beirut suburb. (references)

Political Economy

Lebanon

The President must be a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim, and the Speaker of Parliament a Shi'a Muslim. (references)

Lebanon

Lebanon is a parliamentary republic in which, based on the unwritten "National Pact of 1943," the President is a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim, and the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies a Shi'a Muslim. (references)

Political Rights

Lebanon

The Taif Accord also increased the number of seats in Parliament and transferred some powers from the Maronite President to the Sunni Prime Minister and the religiously mixed Cabinet. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Beginning with "MARONITE": maronite-dominated.

Turkish

maruni. (various references)

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