Fatahland
Fatahland | |||||||||||||
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| 1969–1982 | |||||||||||||
Flag of the Palestine Liberation Organization | |||||||||||||
Map of Lebanon in 1976 during the Lebanese Civil War. Lands controlled by the PLO and its allies are shown in light green. | |||||||||||||
| Status | Militia-controlled territory | ||||||||||||
| Capital | West Beirut | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | Arabic | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Islam Christianity Druze faith | ||||||||||||
| Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO | |||||||||||||
• 1969–2004 | Yasser Arafat | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | Lebanese Civil War | ||||||||||||
| 1969 | |||||||||||||
| 1970–1971 | |||||||||||||
• Start of the Lebanese Civil War | 1975 | ||||||||||||
| 1976 | |||||||||||||
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| 1982 | |||||||||||||
| 1982 | |||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
• Refugee population in 1969 | 235,000 | ||||||||||||
• Refugee population in 1982 | 375,000 | ||||||||||||
| Currency | Lebanese Pound | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Lebanon | ||||||||||||
Fatahland (Arabic: فتح لاند Fatḥ Lānd or أرض فتح ʼArḍ Fatḥ; Hebrew: פתחלנד Fateḥland) is an informal term used to refer to the areas of Lebanon which were under the control of the Palestine Liberation Organization (Fatah being its largest faction) during the Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon. At its height described as a "state-within-a-state", it was one of many militia-controlled "cantons" — such as "Maronistan" and the Civil Administration of the Mountain — which supplanted the authority of the Lebanese central government as it collapsed during the Lebanese Civil War.
The term is sometimes employed today to refer to Fatah's governance over the Palestinian enclaves in the West Bank, as opposed to Hamastan, in the context of the Fatah–Hamas conflict that has been ongoing since 2006.