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Lebanon
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After the Battle of Yarmuk, Caliph Umar appointed the Arab
Muawiyah, founder of the Umayyad dynasty, as governor of Syria, an
area that included present-day Lebanon. Muawiyah garrisoned troops
on the Lebanese coast and had the Lebanese shipbuilders help him
construct a navy to resist any potential Byzantine attack. He also
stopped raids by the Marada, a powerful people who had settled in
the Lebanese mountains and who were used by the Byzantine rulers to
prevent any Arab invasion that would threaten the Byzantine Empire.
Concerned with consolidating his authority in Arabia and Iraq,
Muawiyah negotiated an agreement in 667 with Constantine IV, the
Byzantine emperor, whereby he agreed to pay Constantine an annual
tribute in return for the cessation of Marada incursions. During
this period some of the Arab tribes settled in the Lebanese and
Syrian coastal areas.
Data as of December 1987
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