Federation of the Autonomous States of Syria Fédération des États autonomes de Syrie | |||||||||||||||
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| 1922–1925 | |||||||||||||||
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| Status | Federal state administered by the French Mandate of Syria | ||||||||||||||
| Capital | |||||||||||||||
| President | |||||||||||||||
• 1922–1925 | Subhi Bey Barakat | ||||||||||||||
| Legislature | Federal Council[1] | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
• Established | 28 June 1922 | ||||||||||||||
• Dissolution effective | 1 January 1925 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||||
| [2] | 119,000–120,000 km2 (46,000–46,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Currency | Lebanese-Syrian pound | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Syria, Turkey | ||||||||||||||
a The capital was initially planned to alternate between Aleppo and Damascus. | |||||||||||||||
The Syrian Federation (Arabic: الاتحاد السوري; French: Fédération syrienne), officially the Federation of the Autonomous States of Syria (French: Fédération des États autonomes de Syrie), was constituted on 28 June 1922 by High Commissary Gouraud.[3] It comprised the States of Aleppo, Damascus, and of the Alawites,[4] spanning an area of 119,000 to 120,000 km2.[5] It was officially dissolved by decree of 5 December 1924 "which received its application starting on 1 January 1925".[6]
- ^ Batsell, Walter Russell; Garfield, Wadsworth; Colegrove, Kenneth Wallace (1927). "European Economic and Political Survey".
- ^ Le Conte 1923, p. 287
- ^ Malsagne 2011, p. 62; Annales des sciences politiques 1924; Joffre 1924.
- ^ Annales des sciences politiques 1924 ; Sartre & Sartre-Fauriat 2016.
- ^ Le Conte 1923, p. 287.
- ^ Malsagne 2011, p. 62; Rapport sur la situation de la Syrie et du Liban 1925, p. 9.