Martyrs' Day (Lebanon and Syria)

Martyrs' Day (Lebanon and Syria)

Commemorative holiday

Martyrs' Day is a Syrian and Lebanese national holiday commemorating the Syrian and Lebanese Muslim-Christian Arab nationalists executed in Damascus and Beirut on 6 May 1916 by Jamal Pasha, also known as 'Al Jazzar' or 'The Butcher', the Ottoman wāli of Greater Syria. They were…