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Jabal Druze State
Origins
In 1921 France reached an agreement with Druze leaders granting the mountainous Jabal al-Druze, south of Damascus, autonomy under French protection. Salim al-Atrash, of the leading Druze family, became its first governor.
Rule and society
The state kept Druze customary leadership, with French advisers. After Salim's death in 1923, the French officer Gabriel Carbillet governed it, imposing roads and land reforms with forced labour and challenging the power of the Atrash chiefs. Druze anger led Sultan al-Atrash to rise in July 1925, defeating French columns and sparking the Great Syrian Revolt, which spread to Damascus before it was crushed in 1927.
Decline and legacy
The state was renamed Jabal al-Arab, and under the 1936 Franco-Syrian treaty it was joined to the Syrian Republic, becoming the province of Suwayda.
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- Jabal Druze State was part of French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon1921 CE – 1936 CE
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Jabal Druze State. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/jabal-druze-state
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