Franco-Syrian War
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The Franco-Syrian War took place during 1920 between France and the Hashemite rulers of the newly established Arab Kingdom of Syria. During a series of engagements, which climaxed in the Battle of May
Syrian soldiers at Maysalun, 1920
Award to French veterans - the Cilicia Levant medal law 18 July 1922
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 concerning the territories of Syria and
Franco-Syrian War
…was declared in Syria on July 25, headed by 'Alaa al-Din al-Darubi and the region of Syria was eventually divided into several client states under the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon. The British government, concerned for their position in the new mandate in Iraq, agreed to declare the fugitive Faisal as the new king of Iraq. Near…
Front cover of the Mandate document, 1922
The Syrian National Congress in 1919
General Gourard proclaims the creation of the State of Greater Lebanon
A 10-piastre Syrian stamp used in the Alawite State, bearing an overprint overprinted "ALAOUITES"