State of Syria État de Syrie دولة سوريا | |||||||||
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1925–1930 | |||||||||
Status | Mandate of France | ||||||||
Capital | Damascus | ||||||||
Common languages | French Arabic Syriac Armenian Kurdish Turkish | ||||||||
Religion | Islam Christianity Judaism Druzism Yazidism | ||||||||
President | |||||||||
• 1925 (first) | Subhi Bey Barakat | ||||||||
• 1928–1930 (last) | Taj al-Din al-Hasani | ||||||||
Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||
• State declared | 5 December 1924 | ||||||||
• Established | 1 January 1925 | ||||||||
1925–1927 | |||||||||
14 May 1930 | |||||||||
Currency | Lebanese-Syrian pound | ||||||||
ISO 3166 code | SY | ||||||||
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Today part of | Syria Israel ∟Northern District (disputed) Turkey |
The State of Syria (French: État de Syrie, Arabic: دولة سوريا Dawlat Sūriyā) was a French Mandate state created by decree of 5 December 1924, with effect from 1 January 1925, from the union of the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus. It was the successor of the Syrian Federation (1922–1924) which had been created by providing a central assembly for the State of Aleppo, the State of Damascus and the Alawite State. The Alawite State did not join the State of Syria.