Banner o Lebanon

The banner o Lebanon (Arabic: علم لبنان‎) is formed o twa horizontal reid stripes envelopin a horizontal white stripe. The white stripe is tae be twa times a reid ane (ratio 1:2:1)—a Spaingie fess. The green cedar in the middle touches each o the reid stripes an its width is ane third o the width o the banner.^[1]

It wis designed tae be a neutral banner, no allied tae ony ane o Lebanon's releegious groups. The reid stripes seembolise the pure bluid shed in the aim o leeberation. The white stripe seembolizes peace, an the white snaw coverin Lebanon's muntains. The green cedar (Arz) (Species: Cedrus libani or Lebanon Cedar) seembolizes immortality an steadiness.^[2]

Throu history, Lebanon, or at least its region, haed taken the banner o the fowk who occupied it (Mamluk, Ottoman Empire)

Durin the French Mandate o Lebanon, the Lebanese banner wis designed bi the preses o the Lebanese Renaissance Movement, the late Naoum Mukarzel. It wis seemilar tae the tricolour banner o Fraunce but wi a Cedar in the middle.

The preses Lebanese banner wis adoptit juist prior tae unthirldom frae Fraunce in 1943. Seekin for unthirldom, the actual banner wis first drawn bi member o parliament Henri Pharaon^[3][4] in the Chamber o deputies Saeb Salam's hoose in Mousaitbeh bi the deputies o the Lebanese parliament. It wis adoptit on December 7, 1943, durin a meetin in the parliament, whaur the airticle 5 in the Lebanese constitution wis modified.

Ane theory is that syne Henri Pharaon wis a lang-time consul in Vienna, Austrick an wis an avid friend an foonder o the "Austro-Lebanese Association o Friendship", the colors coud hae been inspired bi the reid-white-red Banner o Austrick. The Austrian banner is ane o the auldest in the warld, datin tae the 13t century when it first probably appeared efter the Siege o Acre durin the Third Crusade.

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