Maria Antonia Helal Fele was born in 1895, in Lebanon. She married Jose Nassar Helal Chalil about 1920, in Treinta y Tres, Uruguay. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 10 December 1986, at the age of 91.
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After the League of Nations grants the mandate for Lebanon and Syria to France, the State of Greater Lebanon is proclaimed. It includes the former autonomous province of Mount Lebanon, plus the provinces of north Lebanon, south Lebanon and the Biqa, historically part of Syria.
The Lebanese Representative Council approves a Constitution and the Lebanese Republic is declared.
The foundations of the state are set out in an unwritten National Covenant which states that Lebanon is an independent Arab country with ties to the West but which cooperates with other Arab states while remaining neutral. The 1932 census which had shown that Christians were 54% of the population is used as the basis for the distribution of seats in the Chamber of Deputies (later to be called the National Assembly) on a ratio of 6 to 5 (later extended to other public offices). The President is to be a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim, and the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies a Shi'ite Muslim.
Muslim (mainly Egypt and Bangladesh): variant of Hilal .
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