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Druses
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A peculiar people, numbering some 80,000, inhabiting the S. of Lebanon and Anti-lebanon, with the Maronites on the N., whose origin is very uncertain, only it is evident, though they speak the Arab language, they belong to the Aryan race; their religion, a mixture of Christian, Jewish, and Mohammedan beliefs, is grounded on faith in the unity and the incarnation of God; their form of government is half hierarchical and half feudalistic; in early times they were under emirs of their own, but in consequence of the sanguinary, deadly, and mutually exterminating strife between them and the Christian Maronites in 1860, they were put under a Christian governor appointed by the Porte.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Druses'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/d/druses.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Druses'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/d/druses.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
