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Fakhr al-Din II
Fakhr al-Din II was a Druze emir of the Ma'n family who governed the Shuf mountains and, as an Ottoman tax farmer, extended his authority over much of Lebanon, Galilee and the coast. After an Ottoman expedition against him he spent 1613–1618 in exile in Tuscany. His growing power alarmed Istanbul, and he was captured in 1633 and executed in Constantinople in 1635. He is often seen as a forerunner of modern Lebanon.
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