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Events on Sunday 27 May 1860 1
1860Mount Lebanon Civil War and Damascus MassacreSectarian conflict kills thousands of Christians in Ottoman SyriaFighting between Druze and Maronite Christian communities in Mount Lebanon escalated in the spring of 1860 and spread to Damascus, where a mob killed thousands of Christians in July. The violence prompted a French-led European military intervention and Ottoman reforms that created an autonomous Christian-governed Mount Lebanon. The crisis drew sustained international attention to the treatment of Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire.