Alawite State
The Alawitenstaat (French État des Alaouites, Arabic دولة جبل العلويين ) was from 1920 to 1936, a State which was created after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire on French mandate territory.
History
With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War, there was a race for the control of its provinces under his war opponents. France, which had already conquered in 1918, the territory of the Vilayet of Syria, received on September 2, 1920 by the League of Nations mandate over the Alawitenterritorium, which formerly belonged to the Vilayet of Beirut. In the coastal zone of present-day Syria located, was and is the main settlement area of the Alawites ( Alawite ).
Originally, the area should be an independent territory under French administration, but on July 1, 1922, became part of the League of Nations Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, and formed in the sequence along with the related also under French mandate States State Damascus and State Aleppo, the newly created Syrian Federation. The consummated on September 29, 1923 elimination of the Syrian Federation because of, the territory did not go to the newly established State of Syria, but in 1924 the separate state with the port city of Latakia as its capital. On January 1, 1925, this was the name État des Alaouites.
From the beginning of the French Mandate on, there was always revolts against the French occupation, which found no end, even after the state was founded. One of the most famous riots in 1919 took its beginning and was led by the anti- French Alawites Salih al-Ali.
On September 22, 1930, the name of the Alawitenstaates in Independent Latakisches Gouvernement (French Government Indépendant de Lattaquie ) was changed. The population was about 278,000 inhabitants at the time. On 5 December 1936, the country was incorporated into the Republic of Syria, which entered into force in 1937. On January 10 In 1937 the flag of the Alawite was replaced by the tricolor nationalsyrische.