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French Mandate of Lebanon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The French Mandate of Syria was a League of Nations Mandate created after the First World War and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. During the two years that followed the end of the war in 1918, and according to the Sykes-Picot Agreement which was signed between Britain and France during the war...
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Following World War I (1914–18), the whole of Lebanon was administered by the French military as part of a French mandate; the country was fully independent by 1946. After the Arab-Israeli war of 1948–49, tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees settled in southern Lebanon.
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Under the Constitution, the French high commissioner still exercised supreme power, an arrangement that initially brought objections from the Lebanese nationalists. Nevertheless, Charles Dabbas, a Greek Orthodox, was elected the first president of Lebanon three days after the adoption of the Constitution.
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Template:Infobox Former Country The French Mandate of Lebanon was a League of Nations Mandate created at the end of World War I. ... French Mandate of Syria...
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The French Mandate of Lebanon was a League of Nations Mandate created at the end of World War I. When the Ottoman Empire was formally split up by the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920, it was decided that four of its territories in the Middle East should be League of Nations mandates temporarily governed by the United Kingdom...
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The French organized Syria into five states under the Mandate. One of them was the French Mandate of Greater Lebanon 1920-1932 (May 1920). Its flag was the French flag with a cedar centered on the white stripe.
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Lebanon, French mandate, Britannica Online Encyclopedia, At the end of the war, Lebanon was occupied by Allied forces and placed under a French military administration. ... In 1923 the League of Nations formally gave the mandate for Lebanon and Syria to France. The Maronites, strongly pro-French by tradition, welcomed this,
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Topics French Mandate of Lebanon Topic Home ... ; The French Mandate of Lebanon was a League of Nations ... ; Charles Debbas was a Greek Orthodox Lebanese political figure. He was the first President of Lebanon and served from September 1, 1926 till January 2, 1934, under the French Mandate....
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