Home›Open Questions›What Was the Combined Death Toll of the 1860 Mount Lebanon and Damascus Massacres?Open QuestionsWhat Was the Combined Death Toll of the 1860 Mount Lebanon and Damascus Massacres?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What Was the Combined Death Toll of the 1860 Mount Lebanon and Damascus Massacres?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-was-the-combined-death-toll-of-the-1860-mount-lebanon-and-damascus-massacres.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What Was the Combined Death Toll of the 1860 Mount Lebanon and Damascus Massacres?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-was-the-combined-death-toll-of-the-1860-mount-lebanon-and-damascus-massacresCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-was-the-combined-death-toll-of-the, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What Was the Combined Death Toll of the 1860 Mount Lebanon and Damascus Massacres?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-was-the-combined-death-toll-of-the-1860-mount-lebanon-and-damascus-massacres}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionFawaz's Mount Lebanon estimate and Rogan's Damascus estimate come from two separate archival reconstructions written thirty years apart, each focused on a different phase and place; no single study has combined them into one reconciled figure for the whole 1860 violence, and the much higher contemporary press and missionary claims that circulated at the time remain uncorrected in some popular accounts.What would resolve this A study working from Ottoman provincial and central archives, European consular correspondence and the records of the 1860 international commission of inquiry, applying a consistent method across both Mount Lebanon and Damascus, to produce one combined, reconciled casualty estimate for the whole episode.OpenOttoman and modern Middle Eastern historyLeila Tarazi Fawaz, An Occasion for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860Cross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion On1860 Mount Lebanon and Damascus Massacres, Wars & Conflicts Well-attested ConnectedNo study has combined Fawaz's Mount Lebanon figure and Rogan's Damascus figure into one reconciled total for the whole 1860 episode.SourcesAn Occasion for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860tier 1Leila Tarazi Fawaz, University of California Press, 1994The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle Easttier 1Eugene Rogan, Basic Books, 2024Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year