Jabal Druze State

The Druze State (French État de la Montagne Druze, Arab دولة جبل الدروز Daula Jabal al-Druze ), French short form also Djebel druze, an autonomous state was 1921-1936, proclaimed within the French mandate for Syria and Lebanon to the Government for the local Druze population to serve under French supervision.

The capital of the Druze state was As- Suwayda, the official language was French.

Naming

On 4 March 1922, the territory as a state Suwayda (French État du Souaida ) has been called, after its capital As- Suwayda.

In 1927, the state was in Druze State or Djebel (literally " Mountain of the Druze " ) renamed druze. Therefore, the name comes from the mountains of Jabal al-Druze.

History

The Druze state was established on 1 May 1921 on the territory of the vilayets of Beirut and Syria of the former Ottoman Empire, while others religiously defined entities have been set up in other parts of present-day Syria, the Alawitenstaat in the region of Latakia. The Druze state was home to more than 50,000 Arab Druze. It was since the end of the Druze Emirate in 1841 the first and to date only remaining Autonomous Community, which was ruled by the Arab Druze. The Syrian Revolution of 1925 ushered in the region of the Druze state under the leadership of Sultan al - Atrache, and spread to Damascus and in other areas not populated by Druze outside the region of the state of drusen. Protests against the division of the Syrian territory in individual states were a major theme of the Syrian anti-colonial nationalism, which eventually winning the unification of the whole of the French mandated territory - with the exception of Lebanon and Alexandrettas as State Hatay, which were independent - won. As a result of nationalist pressure for the establishment of a Greater Syria, heard after the signing of the Franco- Syrian Treaty of Independence in 1936 the Druze state to exist as an independent entity, and was incorporated into Syria.

Governors

• Amir Salim Pasha al - Atrash (May 1, 1921 - September 15, 1923 )
• Trenga (preliminary) ( September 1923 - March 6, 1924)
• Gabriel Marie Victor Carbillet (March 6, 1924 - October 14, 1925 ), provisionally for October 1, 1924
• Sultan Pasha al - Atrache (July 18, 1925 - June 1, 1927 ), head of state; in dissidence
• Charles Andréa (15 October 1925-1927 )
• Marie Joseph Léon Augustin Henry ( 1927)
• Abel Jean Ernest Clément- Grancourt (1927 - 1932)
• Renaud Massiet (3 February 1932 - January 28, 1934 )
• Devicq (1934 - 1935)
• Tarit (1935 - December 2, 1936 )