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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, [81] 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 .
Alawite religious leader Sheikh Deeb Dayoub takes part in a community meeting in Qardaha, Syria, on Dec. 17, 2024, to discuss local issues after the fall of President Bashar Assad's government ...
Hama city is a strategic city which had supply lines to loyalist coastal strongholds [20] and is close to areas inhabited by Alawites who had largely backed the Assad government in the past. Furthermore, the city acts as junction connecting all four main areas of Syria: North, south, east and west.
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 ...
It gave insurgents control over Syria's strategic heartland and a key highway crossroads, severing Damascus from a coastal region that's key to the power of Assad's Alawite sect. The Alawites are ...
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 ...