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
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"
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Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north and northwe
Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
…Syria. The Arabs, trusting earlier British promises, hoped that the new Arab state would include all Arab lands stretching from Aleppo, in northern Syria, to Aden, in southern Yemen. However, in accordance with the secret Sykes–Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France, General Allenby assigned…
Reconstructed sculpture of a bird from Tell Halaf
Ishqi-Mari, king of the Second Kingdom of Mari, circa 2300 BC
Amrit Phoenician Temple
Antioch in Syria became the capital of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire in 240 BC