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Syria and France
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* Evacuation Day, celebrates the recognition of the independence of Syria from France in 1946.
France wished to strengthen its position in the region, especially in the Levant ( today's Lebanon, Syria, the Palestinian territories and Israel ).
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Napoleon planned to move into Syria but was defeated and he returned to France without his army, which surrendered.
The political states of Iraq and Syria were formed by the United Kingdom and France following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. Iraq and Syria are united by historical, social, political, cultural and economic relations, but share a long foreign drawn border.
According to the agreements reached at San Remo, France had its control over what was termed Syria recognised, the French having taken Damascus in 1920.
However, Syria was scheduled to be an independent country, a so-called Class A Mandate, and the rights granted to France were far less than over other mandate territories.
Wanting to maximize the area under its direct control, contain an Arab Syria centered on Damascus, and insure a defensible border, France established the Lebanon-Syrian border to the " Anti-Lebanon " mountains, on the far side of the Beqaa Valley, territory which had belonged to the province of Damascus for hundreds of years, and was far more attached to Damascus than Beirut by culture and influence.
* Syria ( France ), 29 September 1923 – 1 January 1944.
France has received a single mandate from the Council of the League of Nations, but in the countries subject to that mandate, one can distinguish two distinct States: Syria and the Lebanon, each State possessing its own constitution and a nationality clearly different from the other.
According to Alexandre de Marenches, chief of External Documentation and Counter-Espionnage Service ( now known as the DGSE ), the shah declined that France expel Khomeini for fear that the cleric should move to Syria or Libya.
After World War I, the Ottoman Empire was dissolved with help from the United Kingdom, France and the Arab nation itself, and in 1922 the League of Nations split the dominion of the former Syria between two countries: the United Kingdom received Transjordan and Palestine, and France received what was to become modern-day Syria and Lebanon.
With the fall of France in 1940 during World War II, Syria came under the control of the Vichy Government until the British and Free French occupied the country in July 1941.
The political states of Iraq and Syria were formed by the United Kingdom and France following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. Iraq and Syria are united by historical, social, political, cultural and economic relations, but share a long foreign drawn border.
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* July 14 – WWII: Vichy France signs armistice terms, ending all fighting in Syria and Lebanon.
* December 23 – The United Kingdom and France ratify the border between French-held Syria and British-held Palestine.

Syria and negotiated
In 1989, Syria endorsed the Charter of National Reconciliation, or " Taif Accord ", a comprehensive plan for ending the Lebanese conflict negotiated under the auspices of Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and Morocco.
The promise of a negotiated settlement between Israel and Syria was sufficient to convince Arab oil producers to lift the embargo in March 1974.
After al-Mu ' azzam's death, al-Kamil and his other brother al-Ashraf Khalil negotiated a treaty giving all of Palestine ( including Transjordan ) to al-Kamil and Syria to al-Ashraf.
The crusaders had negotiated with the Fatimids of Egypt during their march to Jerusalem, but no satisfactory compromise could be reached — the Fatimids were willing to give up control of Syria but not Palestine, but this was unacceptable to the crusaders, whose goal was the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Syria and treaty
Diocletian left Africa quickly after the treaty, moving from Upper Egypt in September 298 to Syria in February 299.
In May 1991, Lebanon and Syria signed the treaty of brotherhood, cooperation, and coordination called for in the Taif Accord, which is intended to provide the basis for many aspects of Syrian-Lebanese relations.
The treaty delimited the boundaries of Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey ; formally ceded all Turkish claims on the Dodecanese Islands ( Article 15 ); Cyprus ( Article 20 ); Egypt and Sudan ( Article 17 ); Syria and Iraq ( Article 3 ); and ( along with the Treaty of Ankara ) settled the boundaries of the latter two nations.
The territories to the south of Syria and Iraq on the Arabian Peninsula which still remained under Turkish control when the Armistice of Mudros was signed on 30 October 1918 were not explicitly identified in the text of the treaty.
Melisende's connections, especially to her sister Hodierna, and to her niece Constance of Antioch, meant that she had direct influence in northern Syria, a priceless connection since Baldwin had himself broken the treaty with Damascus in 1147.
In 968 he reduced most of the fortresses in Syria, and after the fall of Antioch and Aleppo in 969, which were recaptured by his lieutenants, he secured his conquests by a peace treaty.
When the Roman senate heard that the Syrian kingdom kept more warships and elephants than allowed by the peace treaty of Apamea made in 188 BC, they sent a Roman embassy to travel along the cities of Syria and attempted to cripple Seleucid military power by sinking the Syrians ' warships and hamstringing their elephants.
He wanted to make sure that the treaty had a built-in end date because the treaty further divided Syria and Iraq, the former which was under French control, and the latter under British rule.
Ironically, Arab nationalists in Iraq had a positive reception to the treaty because they saw this as progress, which seemed better than the Arab situation in Syria and Palestine.
In April 1253, a treaty was signed whereby the Mamluks would retain all of Egypt and Palestine up to ( but not including ) Nablus, while an-Nasir Yusuf would be confirmed as the ruler of Muslim Syria.
* 311 BCE: The Antigonid dynasty regains control of the city after Ptolemy withdraws from Syria again following a minor defeat to Antigonus I Monophthalmus, and a peace treaty is concluded.
Due first to French stalling with regard to signing an independence treaty, then to the chaotic political environment of WWII, Syria continued to be de facto occupied to varying degrees.
After Faisal was expelled from Syria and given the Kingdom of Iraq, he contended that the conditions he appended were not fulfilled and the treaty therefore moot.
" In pointing out that the United States has not responded in the same way to Syria, which is also suspected of having weapons of mass destruction, and that several US allies, including Pakistan, India, and Israel, have such weapons without having signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, Butler asked why the United States is " permitting the persistence of such shocking double standards ".
" It called upon Israel to dismantle all existing settlements outside of the 1967 border, to halt construction of the so-called “ Separation Wall ,” to end home demolitions in the West Bank and Gaza, and to dismantle its nuclear weapons program and join a Middle East non-proliferation treaty, and to engage in " serious and unconditional " negotiations with the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.
Atassi's treaty guaranteed emancipation over 25 years, with full incorporation of previously autonomous territories into Greater Syria.
As a result of this treaty, the Maurya Empire was recognized as a great power by the Hellenistic World, and the kings of Egypt and Syria sent their own ambassadors to his court.
His major preoccupation was to conclude a treaty with France, which had exercised control over Syria for more than two decades.
The Sanjak of Alexandretta became an autonomous province of Syria under Article 7 of the French-Turkish treaty of October 20, 1921: " A special administrative regime shall be established for the district of Alexandretta.
Egyptologists suspect that some time prior to Ramesses II's accession to the Egyptian throne, Muwattalli had reached an informal peace treaty or understanding with Seti I over Kadesh to avoid a clash between the two superpowers over control of Syria.
He called on Syria to join the Baghdad Pact, an Anglo-American treaty to contain Communism, and pro-Nasser newspapers accused him of working as an agent for the Hashemites.

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