Jabal el Druze (state):
Jabal ad-Druze (Arabic: جبل الدروز) was an autonomous state in the French Mandate of Syria from 1921 to 1936, created for the local Druze population.
[edit] Nomenclature
On March 4, 1922 it was proclaimed as the State of Souaida, after the capital As Suwayda, but in 1927 it was renamed Jabal ad-Druze or Jebel Druze State, after the Jabal ad-Duruz mountain.
[edit] History
Druze celebrating their independence in 1925.
Formed on May 1, 1921 in former Ottoman territory, Jabal ad-Druze was home to about 50,000 Arab Druze. It was the first, and remains the only autonomous entity to be populated and governed by Arab Druze. The 1927 Syrian Revolution began in Jabal ad-Druze under the leadership of Sultan al-Atrash. Under the Franco-Syrian Treaty of 1936, it ceased to exist as an autonomous entity and was incorporated into Syria.
[edit] Allon Plan for a Druze state in the Golan/Quneitra
During the 1970s, Israeli politician Yigal Allon proposed as part of the so-called Allon Plan that a Druze state (Jabal Druze) be established in Syria's Quneitra Governorate, including the Israeli-held Golan Heights[1]. Allon died in 1980, and in the following year the Israeli government passed the Golan Heights Law, effectively annexing most of the Governorate.
[edit] Governors
- Amir Salim Pasha al-Atrash (May 1, 1921 - September 15, 1923)
- Trenga (provisional) (September 1923 - March 6, 1924)
- Gabriel Marie Victor Carbillet (March 6, 1924 - October 14, 1925), provisional to October 1, 1924
- Sultan Pasha al-Atrash (July 18, 1925 - June 1, 1927), chief of state; in dissidence
- Charles Andréa (October 15, 1925 - 1927)
- Marie Joseph Léon Augustin Henry (1927)
- Abel Jean Ernest Clément-Grancourt (1927-1932)
- Renaud Massiet (February 3, 1932 - January 28, 1934)
- Devicq (1934-1935)
- Tarit (1935 - December 2, 1936)
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