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A map of French Mandate states in 1921–22. The Alawite State is in purple. When the French began to occupy Syria in 1920, [80] an Alawite State was created in the coastal and mountain country comprising most Alawite villages. The division also intended to protect the Alawite people from more powerful majorities, such as the Sunnis.
The Alawite State (Arabic: دولة جبل العلويين, Dawlat Jabal al-‘Alawiyyīn; French: État des Alaouites), initially named the Territory of the Alawites (French: territoire des Alaouites), after the locally-dominant Alawites from its inception until its integration to the Syrian Federation in 1922, was a French mandate territory on the coast of present-day Syria after World War ...
Alawite communities in Syria refer to localities in Syria with a majority Alawite population or an otherwise sizable Alawite population. Alawites are a Muslim community affiliated with Shia Islam and are ethnically Arabs .
The Alawite community - from which the Assad family originates - are the largest Muslim minority group in Syria, making up roughly 10 per cent of the population and situated largely in Syria’s ...
The Alawites are the second largest religious group in Syria, after the Sunni Muslims. [8] They are divided into two main groups: traditional Alawites, who form the majority, and the minority Murshid Alawites (which rose from a modern schism in the Alawite sect at the beginning of the 20th century). [8]
A man looks at produce for sale in front of a Syrian government tank that was abandoned on a street in an Alawite neighborhood in Homs on Dec. 26, 2024.
The regime also encouraged Alawites to move from their traditional home in northwest Syria to specific neighborhoods in Damascus. By increasing the Alawite presence in strategically important ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Place Ghajar غجر ע'ג'ר Ghajar The Golan on the map of Syria; Ghajar on the map of the Golan. Show map of Syria Ghajar Ghajar (the Golan Heights) Show map of the Golan Heights Coordinates: 33°16′22″N 35°37′23″E / 33.27278°N 35.62306°E / 33.27278; 35.62306 Grid ...