Marada Brigades
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Marada Movement
تيار المردة |
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| President | Suleiman Frangieh, Jr. |
| Founder | Suleiman Frangieh |
| Founded | 1967 (as militia) 1991 (as party) |
| Headquarters |
 Zgharta, Lebanon
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| Ideology | Lebanese nationalism Christian democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | March 8 Alliance |
| Colors | Blue and green |
| Parliament of Lebanon |
3 / 128
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| Cabinet of Lebanon |
1 / 30
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The Marada Movement (Arabic: تيار المردة Tayyār Al-Marada) is a Lebanese political party and a former militia active during the Lebanese civil war named after the legendary Marada (also called Mardaites) warriors of the early Middle Ages that fought on the external edge of the Byzantine Empire. Originally designated the Marada Brigade (لواء المردة Liwa al-Marada), the group initially emerged as the personal militia of Suleiman Frangieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the war in 1975. They were also initially known as the Zgharta Liberation Army – ZLA (Arabic: Zgharta Jayish al-Tahrir) or Armée de Liberation de Zgharta (ALZ) in French, after Frangieh's hometown of Zgharta in northern Lebanon.
The Marada were a group of independent communities in Lebanon and the surrounding highlands after the conquest of Syria by the Arab Caliph in 630 CE While some historians argue that the Marada "States" were that of a Maronite Aramaic -speaking Christian warrior elite, other historians tend to their downplay importance, and describe a more complex scenario. The Maronites and thus the Marada were given relative autonomy in the Umayyad Caliphate. The Marada were known by some as a fierce warrior group, and according to some, the name was synonymous with the Arabic word for insane or sick.
During the Lebanese civil war was called one of the Maronite militias " Marada Movement ". During the Lebanese civil war, Zgharta was the frontline and Christian stronghold of the north in northern Lebanon. The Zgharta-based Marada Brigade militia successfully repulsed and responded with attacks on armed militias from Tripoli, Danniyeh and Koura districts, and from PLO militias from the neighboring Palestinian refugee camps of Beddawi and Nahr al-Bared.
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