User:Free Syrian 200/الثورة السورية الكبرى
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The Great Syrian Revolt (Arabic: الثورة السورية الكبرى) or Revolt 1925 was a general uprising across mandatory Syria and Lebanon, led by the rebels of Jabal al-Arab in southern Syria, and other multiple factions that Joined them from Sunni, Druze, Alawite, Christians and Shia with the common goal of ending French rule.
Great Syrian Revolt | |||||||
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Statue of the Great Syrian Revolution in Majdal Shams | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Syrian rebels | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Maurice Sarrail Roger Michaud Maurice Gamelin Henry de Jouvenel Charles Andréa |
Sultan Pasha al-Atrash Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar Ayyash Al-Haj Hasan al-Kharrat Ibrahim Hananu Nasib al-Bakri Fawzi al-Qawuqji |
This revolution came in response to the military dictatorship policies pursued by the French authorities in tearing Syria into several states, abolishing freedoms, pursuing patriots and provoking sectarian tendencies. And fighting the culture and the Arab character of the country and trying to replace it with French culture, in addition to the refusal of the Mandate authorities to conclude an agreement with the Syrian national forces to set a timetable for the independence of Syria.
This revolution was an extension of the Syrian revolutions that began since the French colonial forces stepped on the Syrian coast in early 1920, and continued until late June 1927. One of the most prominent results of the victory of the French Mandate authorities militarily, but the Syrian resistance was able to destabilize the French policy in Syria, and convinced them that the Syrian people will not yield and must establish a national government of Syria, and forced them to reunite Syria and hold parliamentary elections as this revolution paved the final exit of the French From Syria in 1946.[1]