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The Alawite State (Arabic: العلويين), also known in French as Alaouites, after the locally dominant Alawite sect of Shi'a Islam, was a French mandate territory in the coastal area of present-day Syria after World War I.<ref>Alawite Territory (Latakia), From worldstatesmen.org</ref>
[edit] History
The collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the Great War brought on a scramble to take control of various provinces of the desintegrating empire. France occupied Syria in 1918, and received the Alawite Territory as a mandate from the League of Nations on September 2, 1920. Initially it was an autonomous territory under French rule, but on 1 July 1922 was incorporated into French Syria.
On September 29, 1923, it was declared a state with the port city of Latakia as its capital, and on 1 January 1925 was formally renamed the Alawite State.
On September 22, 1930, it was renamed the Sanjak of Latakia. The population at this time was 278,000.
On 5 December 1936 (effective in 1937) it was fully incorporated into Syria.
[edit] French Governors
- 2 September 1920 - 192. Niéger
- 192. - 1 July 1922 Gaston Henri Gustave Billotte (b. 1875 - d. 1940)
- 1 January 1925 - 1925 Léon Henri Charles Cayla (b. 1881 - d. 1965)
- 1925 - 5 December 1936 H. Schoeffler
[edit] Postage stamps
See: Postage stamps of Alaouites
[edit] See also
[edit] References
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