Did Lebanon exist before Italy

Answer 1

It depends on how you determine Lebanon and Italy. If you are exclusively referring to the modern countries under their current constitutions, Lebanon is older by 3 years. If you are referring to when these countries gain independence, Italy is older by 72 years. If you are talking about original settlement, Lebanon had political states at least a millennium before Italy.

Modern Italy became unified by the Risorgimento which was only entirely completed in 1871. Mount Lebanon, which became the basis of the modern country of Lebanon, was created as an Ottoman province in 1861. However, Lebanon would only gain independence from the Ottomans, and later French, in 1943. In 1943, the Republic of Lebanon was declared. In 1946, the current Republic of Italy was formed.