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The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (French: Mandat pour la Syrie et le Liban; Arabic: الانتداب الفرنسي على سوريا ولبنان, romanized: al-intidāb al-faransī ʻalā sūriyā wa-lubnān, also referred to as the Levant States; [1] [2] 1923−1946) [3] was a League of Nations mandate [4] founded in the aftermath of ...
4 days ago · In July 1922 the League of Nations approved the texts of the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon. Lebanon had already, in August 1920, been declared a separate state, with the addition of Beirut, Tripoli, and certain other districts, to the prewar autonomous province.
Dec 10, 2019 · The dismantlement of the Arab government in Damascus and the partition of the former Syrian and Lebanese provinces along sectarian, ethnic, and regional lines quashed the Syrian nationalists’ scheme for an independent and united Greater Syria and put France on a collision course with the Syrian nationalist camp.
1 day ago · In 1923 the League of Nations formally gave the mandate for Lebanon and Syria to France. The Maronites, strongly pro-French by tradition, welcomed this, and during the next 20 years, while France held the mandate, the Maronites were favored.
The Mandatory shall establish in Syria and the Lebanon a judicial system which shall assure to natives as well as to foreigners a complete guarantee of their rights.
Jun 28, 2021 · The Mandate for Syria and Lebanon amounted, legally, to one mandate. However, the mandate was split by the French into six distinct territories: Damascus, Aleppo, Alawites, Jabal Druze, the autonomous Sanjak of Alexandretta, and Greater Lebanon.
The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon was a League of Nations mandate founded in the aftermath of the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire...
