Officially, the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (also known as the French Mandate of Syria) (, ) was a League of Nations mandate founded after the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. The administration of the region under the French was carried out through a number of different territories including the Syrian Federation (1922–24), the State of Syria (1924–1930) and the Syrian Republic (from 1930) as well as the smaller states of the State of Greater Lebanon, the Alawite State and Jabal ad-Druze (state).