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- ↑ Weiss, Max (2010). In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi'ism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon. Princeton, New Jersey: Harvard University Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0674052987.
- 1 2 "The Seven Lost Villages". Haaretz. 4 August 2006.
- ↑ Barron, Table I.
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