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In 1918, towards the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire's forces withdrew from Syria after being defeated by the Allied Powers (Great Britain and France) and their Hashemite Arab allies from the Hejaz. The British had promised the Hashemites control over a united Arab state consisting of the bulk of Arabic-speaking lands the Ottomans withdrew from, but the Allies had made their own territorial designs over the region entailed in the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement.

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  • Great Syrian Revolt
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  • In 1918, towards the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire's forces withdrew from Syria after being defeated by the Allied Powers (Great Britain and France) and their Hashemite Arab allies from the Hejaz. The British had promised the Hashemites control over a united Arab state consisting of the bulk of Arabic-speaking lands the Ottomans withdrew from, but the Allies had made their own territorial designs over the region entailed in the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement.
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Date
  • July 1925 – June 1927
Commander
  • Maurice Gamelin
  • Sultan Pasha al-Atrash
  • Fawzi al-Qawuqji
  • Maurice Sarrail
  • Charles Andréa
  • Hasan al-Kharrat
  • Henry de Jouvenel
  • Izz al-Din al-Halabi
  • Nasib al-Bakri
  • Roger Michaud
Caption
  • --08-14
Result
  • French victory
combatant
  • France
  • Kingdom of Syria
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Conflict
  • Great Syrian Revolt
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  • In 1918, towards the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire's forces withdrew from Syria after being defeated by the Allied Powers (Great Britain and France) and their Hashemite Arab allies from the Hejaz. The British had promised the Hashemites control over a united Arab state consisting of the bulk of Arabic-speaking lands the Ottomans withdrew from, but the Allies had made their own territorial designs over the region entailed in the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement. The idea of Syrian and Arab independence were not entirely new concepts. French forces entering Syria faced resistance from local actors in the north in 1919, with the prominent Alawite sheikh Salih al-Ali launching a revolt in the coastal mountain range and Ibrahim Hananu leading the anti-French struggle in Aleppo and the surrounding countryside. The leaders of both uprisings were vocally supportive of the creation of a united Syrian state presided over by Emir Faisal, the son of Sharif Husayn. In March 1920 the Hashemites officially established the Kingdom of Syria with Faisal as king and the capital in Damascus. In the April 1920 San Remo Conference, the Allies were granted control over the Ottoman Empire's former Arab territories by the newly formed League of Nations, with Britain taking control of Palestine, Transjordan and Iraq and France taking control of Syria. This transfer of authority from the Ottomans to the French was generally to the consternation of Greater Syria's inhabitants, with the exception of some of the local Christian communities, particularly the Maronites of Mount Lebanon. The kingdom was dissolved following the defeat of the Hashemites' pan-Arab forces by the French in the Battle of Maysalun on 23 July. Faisal was consequently driven out of the Mandate of Syria by the French two years later in the Franco–Syrian War, most Syrian nationalists chose not to follow him to Iraq, but to remain in Syria and advocate for independence. After gaining firm control over Syria, France divided the country into several different autonomous entities (State of Damascus, State of Aleppo, Greater Lebanon, Alawite State and Jabal Druze State.)
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