Talk:Levant Crisis

French NAVY bombarding Damascus?
"...using their navy to bombard parts of Damascus ..." seems impossible to me as Damascus is too far from the shore.Bancki (talk) 10:32, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Good point, I'll sort that out. Eastfarthingan (talk) 21:57, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

British victory ?
The article claim a "British victory "

I'm sorry but that seem questionable. - The crisis occured during WW2, liberated France and Great-Britain were allies - Its' unfair to claim a British victory in a diplomatic crisis who didn't escalated into an armed conflict.

I recomand to edit. Crazy defender 2 (talk) 14:38, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅. Excommunicato (talk) 15:39, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Status of Syria under the Ottoman Empire
Political status of Syria and Lebanon during the Ottoman Empire. Random noter (talk) 01:46, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

This passage recorded today: "At the beginning of the 20th century, Syria and Lebanon were two Arab states occupying a region known as the Levant and were part of the Ottoman Empire." is inaccurate. Neither Syria nor Lebanon existed as 'states' in any sense accepted at the time or today, nor were they "Arab states" in the nationalist sense that began to gel after the fall of the Ottomans and as which both could fairly be described at later times. They were certainly populated mainly by Arabs as we understand the ethnic/cultural term today, and retrospectively. Although many then would have actually identified mainly as Muslims, or in a minority of cases as Druze or Christians or other religious terms rather than as "Arabs", as well as there being Armenians, Kurds, and Circassians, I think we can generally agree that ethnically and culturally most were indeed "Arabs" and for the most part at this point spoke versions of the Arabic language. This much is all fine. The names Syria and Lebanon were also well known as cultural regions and sometimes as administrative terms, albeit not always with modern borders. But they were neither sovereign states nor was their political identity "Arab". Syria was usually multiple 'eyalets', top level provincial units, typically two or three, further divided into 'sanjaks', many. 19th century reforms altered the terms and borders slightly as the article on Ottoman Syria can show. The geographical and cultural area variously known as The Lebanon or as the area around Mount Lebanon had a fairly complicated history even in just the 19th century, but at no point was an independent state nor even a single provincial unit within its current borders. Consequently I have adjusted the original passage slightly to read: "At the beginning of the 20th century, Syria and Lebanon were primarily Arab-populated regions corresponding to most of the region known to Europeans as the Levant and comprised multiple provincial (eyalet/vilayet) and sub-provincial units of the Ottoman Empire." Random noter (talk) 02:02, 2 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I might be dated in use of the software. I really did think I had paragraphs there. Sorry. Random noter (talk) 02:03, 2 May 2023 (UTC)