Yes, thanks for clarifying. That’s indeed what I’m talking about. I don’t know if that’s also applicable to Libya. I don’t know much about the history.
Ok, same question, then. What's the exact "before external interventions" period you are thinking of? Because again, I see hundreds of years of "external factors". Even more so than in Libya, really.
It takes a spectacular effort in intellectual dishonesty to say Lebanon hasn't been affected profoundly by external factors.