Rashidieh
Sign in to saveRashidieh, or Ar-Rashidiyah is the second most populous Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, located on the Mediterranean coast about five kilometres south of the city of Tyre (Sur).
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34 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Territory
- History of the site
- Prehistoric times
- Ancient times
- Phoenician times
- Hellenistic times
- Roman times (64 BCE–395)
- Byzantine period (395–640)
- Medieval times
- Early Muslim period (640–1124)
- Crusader period (1124–1291)
- Mamluk period (1291–1516)
- Modern times
- Ottoman rule (1516–1918)
- French Mandate colonial rule (1920–1943)
- Lebanese independence (since 1943)
- 1948 Palestinian exodus
- Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)
- 1978 South Lebanon conflict with Israel
- 1982 Lebanon War with Israel and occupation
- 1985–1988 War of the Camps: Amal vs. PLO
- Post-Civil War (since 1990)
- Demographics
- Refugees
- Economy
- Cultural life
- Gallery: Photos from "Camp Pause" by the Dictaphone Group
- Notable people
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Rashidieh, or Ar-Rashidiyah is the second most populous Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, located on the Mediterranean coast about five kilometres south of the city of Tyre (Sur).
== Etymology == The camps's Arabic name, "الرشيدية", is variously transliterated as Rashidiya, Rashidiyah, Rachidiye, Rashidiyyeh, Rashadiya, Rashidieh, Reshîdîyeh, or Rusheidiyeh with or without a version of the article Al, El, Ar, or Er.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rashidieh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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