Last modified: 2003-07-05 by santiago dotor
Keywords: syria | jebel druze | jabal ad-duruz | souaida | autonomous territory of souaida | autonomous state of the jebel druze | druze | canton: france | stars: 13 (yellow) |
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by M.V. Blanes
Flag adopted 1924, abolished 1936
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The French organized Syria into five states under the Mandate. One of them was the State of Souaida (March 4th, 1922), later Jebel Druze State (1927) with the addition of Damascus' Hawran (Jabal ad-Duruz or Druze Mountains). Its flag was white [hoist strip] with a French flag in the canton, to right of canton equal horizontal stripes of green, red, yellow, blue and white (reading down). In June 1922 France establish