# State of Syria Created from Aleppo and Damascus (1 January 1925)

URL: https://allhistories.com/syria/timeline/1925-state-of-syria-created-from-aleppo-and-damascus
Location: Damascus
Themes: Mandate, State of Syria

On 1 January 1925 the State of Syria was formally established by decrees issued on 5 December 1924, which dissolved the Syrian Federation and merged the States of Aleppo and Damascus. The federation's president became president of the new state. The Alawite territory was separated again, and Aleppo lost its autonomy to become a province governed from Damascus. The merger answered nationalist pressure and the fiscal burdens of running separate states. It followed political change in Paris in 1924. Aleppo's flag was abolished on 25 January 1925, and the new state was governed from Damascus. The Alawite State and the Jabal Druze stayed outside the new Syrian state under French control. The unified state existed only a few months before the Great Syrian Revolt broke out in the Druze mountain in July 1925. It was the territorial core of the Syrian republic of the 1930s and 1940s, and the frame in which nationalist politics developed, though the mandate still limited its powers. At this point in the timeline (1925), the French Mandate over Syria was administered by French High Commissioner Maurice Sarrail (29 November 1924 – 23 December 1925), with Subhi Bey Barakat, head of the Syrian Federation and State of Syria (29 June 1922 – 21 December 1925) as head of the Syrian state.

## Why it matters
It restored a unified Syrian state in Damascus and Aleppo and became the core of the later republic.

Ruler at the Time: [Maurice Sarrail](https://allhistories.com/syria/rulers/maurice-sarrail)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia — French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Mandate_for_Syria_and_the_Lebanon)
- [Wikipedia — Syrian Federation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Federation)