Syrian Federation
| Fédération des États autonomes de Syrie | |||||
| Federation of the Autonomous States of Syria | |||||
| 1922-1924 | |||||
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| Capital |
Aleppo (1922–1923) Damascus (1923–1924) |
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| Form of government | Federal state under the French mandate | ||||
| Head of state , also head of government |
President of the Federation First Subhi Barakat (1922–1923) Last Subhi Barakat (1923–1924) |
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| surface | 119,000-120,000 km² | ||||
| currency | Syrian-Lebanese pound | ||||
| founding | June 28, 1922 | ||||
| resolution | December 31, 1924 | ||||
The Syrian Federation , officially the Federation of the Autonomous States of Syria , was constituted by an arrêté of the High Commissioner Gouraud on June 28, 1922. This initially included the state of Aleppo , Damascus and the Alawite state . The federation was officially dissolved and the states of Aleppo and Damascus were merged into one state by arrêté of High Commissioner Weygand on December 5, 1924, with effect from January 1, 1925.
According to Hans Kohn , “representative councils similar to those in Lebanon as well as a federal council for common affairs were created in the Syrian Federation. The elections in Damascus took place with great difficulty. It was not until November 12, 1923, that the council in Damascus could be opened by the governor of the state of Damascus, Hakki Bey el-Azm , who here as well as in Aleppo, in contrast to Lebanon, was a Syrian. The president of the federation was Subhi Bey Barakat from Antioch, a Turk, just as the French preferred to rely on the old Turkish element, which was more used to dependency from the time before the World War and was further away from the national aspirations of the Arabs. The Syrian Federation also received its own green and white flag with the colors of the French Republic in the upper corner, while Lebanon had adopted the French tricolor flag with a Lebanese cedar in the middle. "
Individual evidence
- ^ René Le Conte: Geographie administrative du Levant français . In: La Nature . May 5, 1923 (French, google.de ).
- ↑ a b Stéphane Malsagne: Fouad Chéhab, 1902-1973 . (French, google.de ).
- ^ Annales des sciences politiques . (French, google.de ).
- ↑ Le mandat de la France sur la Syrie et le Grand-Liban . (French, google.de ).
- ^ Report on the situation de la Syrie et du Liban . (French, google.de ).
- ↑ Hans Kohn: Nationalism and Imperialism in the Middle East . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1931 ( google.de ).