State of Syria (1924–30)
| State of Syria | ||||||||||||
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État de Syrie دولة سورية |
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| French Mandate | ||||||||||||
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| Capital | Damascus | |||||||||||
| Languages |
French Syriac Armenian Kurdish Turkish Arabic |
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| Religion |
Christianity Judaism Yezidism Islam |
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| Political structure | French Mandate | |||||||||||
| President | ||||||||||||
| • | 1922–1925 | Subhi Barakat | ||||||||||
| • | 1926 | François Pierre-Alype | ||||||||||
| • | 1926–1928 | Ahmad Nami | ||||||||||
| • | 1928–1930/1931 | Taj al-Din al-Hasani | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Interwar period | |||||||||||
| • | Federation declared | 1922 | ||||||||||
| • | State declared | 1924 | ||||||||||
| • | Great Syrian Revolt | 1925–1927 | ||||||||||
| • | Republic declared | 1930 | ||||||||||
| Currency | Syrian pound | |||||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Syria Turkey
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The State of Syria (French: État de Syrie, Arabic: دولة سوريا Dawlat Sūriyā) was a French Mandate state declared on 1 December 1924 from the union of the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus. It was the successor of the Syrian Federation (French: Fédération syrienne, Arabic: الاتحاد السوري al-Ittiḥād as-Sūrī) which had been created by providing a central assembly for the State of Aleppo, the State of Damascus and the Alawite State. The Alawite State did not join the State of Syria.
In 1920, an independent Arab Kingdom of Syria was established under King Faisal of the Hashemite family, who later became the King of Iraq. However, his rule over Syria ended after only a few months, following the clash between his Syrian Arab forces and regular French forces at the Battle of Maysalun. French troops occupied Syria later that year after the League of Nations put Syria under French mandate.
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