- Southern Syria
Southern Syria is the southern region of modern-day
Syria . It includes the region ofHauran , and the governorates ofDaraa , As Suwayda, andQuneitra .Historically, the term "Southern Syria" in Arabic (سوريا الجنوبية, "Suriyya al-Janubiyya") could imply support for the
Greater Syria nationalism associated with the kingdom promised to theHashemite dynasty of theHejaz by the British duringWorld War I . After the war, the Hashemite prince Faisal attempted to establish such a Greater Syrian or pan-Mashriq state (i.e. a united kingdom that would comprise all of what later became Syria,Lebanon , Palestine,Jordan , andIraq , so that Palestine and Jordan would be a province of "Southern Syria"), but he was stymied by conflicting promises made by the British to different parties (seeSykes-Picot Agreement ), leading to the French creation of the mandate of Syria in 1920.External links
* [http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/arla/Levant-internetcourse/Lessons/SouthernSyriaClassic-Byzantine.htm Brief history of Southern Syria]
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