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 an
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"
Alawite State
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The Alawite State, initially named the Territory of the Alawites —after the locally-dominant Alawites—from its inception until its integration to the Syrian Federation in 1922, was a French mandate te
Saleh al-Ali, leader of the Alawite revolt against French rule
Flag on a French collector's card from around 1936