A group of autonomous communities living on Mount Lebanon and the surrounding highlands following the conquest of Syria and Phoenicia by the Arab Muslims in the 630s CE. The Marada states were dominated by a Maronite Christian, Aramaic-speaking warrior elite known as the Mardaites. Though not unified politically, the Marada states acknowledged the spiritual supremacy of the Maronite patriarch. They were able, although only temporarily, to hold off the Muslims and create an autonomous nation. Their capital was located at Baskinta, in Mount Lebanon, and their territories ranged from the Amanus Mountains of northwest Syria to Galilee in northern Palestine. The last of the Marada states was destroyed by the Mamluks in 1305. Mount Lebanon is the mountain range that extends across the whole country of Lebanon about 160 km (100 mi) parallel to the Mediterranean coast and rising to 3,090 m (10,131 ft). ... Phoenicia was an ancient civilization in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal plain of what is now Lebanon and Syria. ... The Arabs (Arabic: عرب Ê»arab) are an originally Arabian ethnicity widespread in the Middle East and North Africa. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... Centuries: 6th century 7th century 8th century Decades: 580s - 590s - 600s - 610s - 620s - 630s - 640s - 650s - 660s - 670s - 680s Years: 630 631 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 Events: 630 - Serbs and Croats settle the Balkans in the provinces of Moesia, Pannonia and Dalmatia 632 - death of... Maronites (Marunoye ܐܶܝܢܘܪܡ in Syriac, Mâruniyya مارونية in Arabic) are members of one of the Eastern Rites of the Catholic church. ... In its simplist form, a Christian is a follower of and a believer in Jesus of Nazareth. ... Aramaic is a Semitic language with a four-thousand year history. ... An Aramaic-speaking group, possibly Iranian in origin, inhabiting the highland regions of southern Anatolia, Isauria, Syria, and Lebanon. ... Mount Lebanon is the mountain range that extends across the whole country of Lebanon about 160 km (100 mi) parallel to the Mediterranean coast and rising to 3,090 m (10,131 ft). ... Galilee (Hebrew hagalil הגליל, Arabic al-jaleel الجليل), meaning circuit, is a large area overlappping with much of the North District of Israel. ... ... An Ottoman Mamluk, from 1810 Mamluks (or Mameluks) (the Arabic word usually translates as owned, singular: مملوك plural: مماليك) comprised slave soldiers used by the Muslim Caliphs and the Ottoman Empire, and who on more than one occasion seized power for themselves. ... Events Wenceslas III becomes king of Bohemia The Papacy removed to France following riots in the Papal State. ...

In the civil wars that plagued Lebanon in modern times, one of the Maronite militias styled itself the "Marada Brigades". A Maronite faction in the Lebanese civil war. ...

References

• Phares, Walid. Lebanese Christian Nationalism: The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Resistance. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995.