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2021 Official Lebanese Holidays
| Date | Holiday |
| 1 Jan | New Year's Day |
| 6 Jan | Armenian Orthodox Christmas |
| 9th February | St. Maroun's Day |
| 14th February | Rafik Hariri Memorial Day |
| 25th March | Annunciation Day |
| 2nd April | Good Friday |
| 4th April | Easter Sunday |
| 30th April | Good Friday (Eastern) |
| 1st May | Labour Day |
| 1st May | Orthodox Easter Sunday |
| 2nd May | Liberation Day |
| 6th May | Martyr's Day |
| 12th or 13th May | Eid Al Fitr |
| 14th May | Liberation Day |
| 19th Jul or 21st Jul | Eid Al Adha |
| 8th or 9th Aug 2021 | Islamic New Year |
| 15th August | Assumption Of Mary |
| 18th or 19th Aug | Ashura |
| 18th or 19th Oct | Milad Un Nabi (The Prophet's Birthday) |
| 22nd November | Independence Day |
| 25th December | Christmas |
Please take into consideration the tiny dimension of this country while reading the following... (10452 km2)
SHOCKING NUMBERS:
17 religious communities
40 daily newspapers
42 universities
Over 100 banks
70% of the students are in private schools
40% of the Lebanese people are Christians (this is the highest % in all the Arab countries)
There's 1 doctor / 10 people (in Europe & America there's 1 doctor / 100 people)
The name LEBANON appears 75 times in the Old Testament
The name CEDAR appears 75 times too in the Old Testament!!
Beirut was destroyed and rebuilt 7 times (This is why it's compared to the phoenix)
There's 3.500.000 Lebanese in Lebanon
There's 5.630.000 Lebanese outside Lebanon!!
OTHER INTERESTING FACTS:
Lebanon was occupied by over 17 countries: (Syrians - Egyptians - Hittites - Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Alexander the great - The Roman Empire - Byzantine - The Arabian Peninsula - The Crusaders - The Ottoman Empire - Britain - France - Israel)
Byblos is the oldest city in the world
Lebanon's name has been around for 4.000 years non-stop (it's the oldest nation's name in the world!)
There are 15 rivers in Lebanon (All of them coming from it's mountains)
Lebanon is one of the most populated countries in it's archeological sites in the world
The only temple of Jupiter (The Main Greek God) is in Baalbeck (The city of the sun)
Lebanon is the country that has the most books written about it
Lebanon is the only non-doctoral country in the Arab world
Jesus Christ made his 1st miracle in Lebanon
The Phoenicians created the 1st boat ever
The 1st alphabet was created by Cadmus in Byblos
The Dye was created in Lebanon
Phoenicians reached America long before Christopher Columbus
The 1st law school was built in Lebanon
People say that the cedars were planted by God's own hands (this is why they're called God's trees)