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Mandate or Syrian Republic territory?
If the green area on this map is meant for the entire territory of the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, it should of course include Lebanon. Before the 1940s, Greater Lebanon (called the Lebanese Republic from 1926 onwards) was part of the Mandate territory, just like the other entities (State of Syria, Jabal Druze and the Alawite State, that were not fused into the Syrian Republic -successor to the State of Syria since 1930- until 1942).

If however this map is meant to only reflect the subordinate territory of the Syrian Republic in 1930-1938, it should not include either the Alawite State, Jabal Druze (again, not added until 1942) or Alexandretta. The Sanjak of Alexandretta was never a part of the Syrian Republic (despite being part of the State of Aleppo since 1923), it was only proposed to be incorporated into the Syrian Republic in the Franco-Syrian Treaty of 1936 that has never been ratified. At best, this map reflects how the territory of the Syrian Republic would have been if the 1936 Treaty had been ratified, which it of course hasn't. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 18:00, 19 August 2012 (UTC)