Syria (region) Gouraud, in breach of the conditions of the mandate, subdivided the French Mandate of Syria into six states. They were the states of Damascus (1920), Aleppo (1920), Alawite State (1920), Jabal Druze (1921), the autonomous Sanjak of Alexandretta (1921) (modern-day Hatay in Turkey), and Greater Lebanon (1920) which later became the modern country of Lebanon. The region has sites that are significant to Abrahamic religions: Syria (region) The region of Syria (, Hieroglyphic Luwian: "Sura/i"; ; in modern literature called "Greater Syria", "Syria-Palestine", or the Levant) is an area located east of the Mediterranean sea. Throughout history, the region has
Lebanon–Turkey relations history because Lebanon gained independence from Ottoman Syria. The Ottoman Empire, which controlled Lebanon as part of Syrian Vilayat, had Lebanon as the most diverse region in the Ottoman Empire. There was several ethnic and religious tensions, notably the infamous 1860 Mount Lebanon civil war which devastated Lebanon and the Ottoman further imposed strict rule in Lebanon. The Turkish Government under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has perceived the Hezbollah, a Shi’a militant group backed by Iran with a negative perception, based on historical trauma in Lebanon and the threat to Turkish legacies in Lebanon. Thus Turkey has sought to maintain closer