page_title: History of Lebanon
section_title: Late 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: History of Lebanon / Ottoman rule / Late 19th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Late nineteenth century Lebanese dress. Maronite from Lebanon, Inhabitant of Jeïbel, Christian Woman from Lebanon. From "Zur Geschichte der Kostüme", 1880, a German book with expired copyright.
context_page_description: The history of Lebanon covers the history of the modern Republic of Lebanon and the earlier emergence of Greater Lebanon under the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, as well as the previous history of the region, covered by the modern state.
context_section_description: The remainder of the 19th century saw a relative period of stability, as Muslim, Druze and Maronite groups focused on economic and cultural development which saw the founding of the American University of Beirut and a flowering of literary and political activity associated with the attempts to liberalize the Ottoman Empire. Late in the century there was a short Druze uprising over the extremely harsh government and high taxation rates, but there was far less of the violence that had scalded the area earlier in the century.
caption: Lebanese dress from the late 19th century.
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