Pan-Syrism

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The terms Pan- Syrian and Greater Syriac are mostly used synonymously for by anti-Syrian critics

• Efforts by Syrian and Arab nationalists to establish or unite Greater Syria
• a nationalistically narrowed, Syrian special form of pan-Arabism , strongly influenced by non-Sunni minorities in Syria
• the Phoenicianism of the Greater Syrian nationalist Antun Saada , similar to pan-Semitism

The Pan-Syrian Congress of March 8, 1920 in Damascus elected the Hashemite Faisal I as king of (Greater) Syria, while his brother Abdallah was proclaimed king of Iraq on the same day in Baghdad and their father Ali ibn Hussein was king of the Hejaz .