Southern Lebanon

This article deals with the region south of the Litani , which does not correspond to the governorate of South Lebanon

UN map of South Lebanon from August 2006.

The Southern Lebanon is the geographical area of Lebanon , roughly south of the Litani , that the two provinces south Lebanon and Nabataea summarizes. These two administrative units were formed from the province of the same name in the early 1990s . Sometimes the southernmost districts of Bekaa Governorate , the Rashaya and Western Bekaa districts, are also considered to be part of southern Lebanon.

The most important cities in the region are the coastal cities of Tire and Sidon and the inland Nabataea . Southern Lebanon has a high proportion of Shiite Muslims , the majority of whom form the basis for the militant Hezbollah . Hezbollah was established by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in late 1982 in response to Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War .

With the 2006 Lebanon War , the region again came into the world's attention.