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Ottoman Appointment of Bashir Chehab III

When
1840
Where
Mount Lebanon
Part of
Firman replaces Bashir Shihab II as Emir of Mount Lebanon; his surrender to the Ottomans

The Ottomans appointed Prince Bashir bin Qasim bin Melhem al-Shihabi as emir of Mount Lebanon, replacing Bashir Shihab II.

The appointment came amid the Oriental Crisis of 1840, through which European intervention obliged Muhammad Ali to come to terms and restored Ottoman territories in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. The Ottomans appointed Prince Bashir bin Qasim bin Melhem al-Shihabi (r. 1840–1842) as the country's emir. The event scope describes a firman of Sultan Abdulmejid I dated 8 October 1840, but no supplied passage names the sultan as issuing the appointment or confirms that date, so the attribution and date remain unverified.

Sources

  1. Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-04
  2. Abdülmecid I Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-26

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