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then, the cedar species known scientifically as Cedrus libani is often associated with Mount Lebanon. The Phoenicians used cedar to build ships in which they sailed the Mediterranean, thus they were the first to establish villages in Mount Lebanon and would live from cutting down cedars and sending them to the coast. After Pompey's conquest of the region in 64 BCE, Mount Lebanon was incorporated into the new Roman province of Syria (although

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