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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.[1]
[edit] HistoryThe collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the Great War brought on a scramble to take control of various provinces of the disintegrating 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
[edit] Postage stampsMain article: Postage stamps of Alaouites [edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links
Categories: League of Nations mandates | Former polities of the Interwar period | States and territories established in 1920 | 1936 disestablishments | French mandate of Syria | History of Syria | History of the Ottoman Empire | Former colonies of France | Latakia | Former countries in the Middle East | Fertile Crescent | Syria stubs | Middle Eastern history stubs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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