Maronites
type: Thing
type: Q41710
type: EthnicGroup
label: موارنة @ar
label: 馬龍尼人 @zh
label: 마론파 @ko
label: Μαρωνίτες @el
label: Maronita @eu
label: Maronici @pl
label: Мароніти @uk
label: Марониты @ru
subject: Category:Christian ethnoreligious groups
subject: Category:Ethnic groups in the Middle East
subject: Category:Semitic-speaking peoples
subject: Category:Ethnoreligious groups in Europe
subject: Category:Ethnic groups in Lebanon
subject: Category:History of Eastern Catholicism
subject: Category:Ethnoreligious groups in Asia
subject: Category:Christian groups in the Middle East
subject: Category:Maronites
hypernym: Group
group: Maronites
text: Following the Muslim conquest of the Levant in 637 AD, the Christians living in the low lands and coastal cities began to settle in the Mount Lebanon and to the coastal cities of the coast which did not particularly interest the Muslim Arabs; the area consisting of those regions extending from Sidon in the South and up to Batroun and the south of Tripoli in the north. The Arab conquerors settled in various cities of the coast to reduce Byzantine interference even though they were not interested in maritime trade. Since the mountains offered no attraction to them, the Christians continued to settle in the Mountains of Lebanon. The Christians that chose to remain in the newly Arab-controlled areas and inhabited by the Arab invaders gradually became a minority and many of those converted to Islam in order to escape taxation and to further their own political and professional advancement.
religion: Maronite Church
region: Syria
region: Jerusalem and
languages: Arabic ,
languages: Liturgical:
languages: Classical Syriac and Classical Arabic
languages: Aramaic
languages: Vernacular:
religions: Maronite Church
related groups: Other Lebanese Christians
native name: الموارنة
language: Cypriot Arabic
language: Aramaic
language: Lebanese Aramaic
language: Syriac language
language: Classical Arabic
language: Arabic
language: Neo-Aramaic languages
native name lang: ar
date: November 2024
population place: Brazil
population place: United States
population place: Syria
population place: France
population place: Argentina
population place: Venezuela
population place: Australia
population place: Canada
population place: Mexico
population place: South Africa
reason: The book source talks only about Christians during this phase and not about Maronites
description: etnische groep @nl
description: กลุ่มศาสนาชาติพันธุ์ในลิแวนต์ @th
description: chrétiens catholiques orientaux @fr
description: ethno-religious group in the Levant
description: etnis-uskonnollinen kansanryhmä Lähi-idässä @fi
description: קבוצה אתנית־דתית נוצרית לבנונית @iw
description: христианская этнорелигиозная группа в Леванте @ru
description: сиријска хришћанска етнорелигијска група @sr
description: bližnjevzhodna katoliška etnoreligijska skupina @sl
description: Lübnan'daki bir Hristiyan grup @tr
description: етнічна група @uk
description: Chrześcijańska grupa religijna z Bliskiego Wschodu @pl
description: 宗教群体 @zh
description: جماعة عرقية دينية مسيحية لبنانية @ar