French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon

State · 1920–1945 CE · at its largest around 1920 CE

A League of Nations mandate under which France administered the former Ottoman territories of Syria and Lebanon after the First World War. Both countries gained full independence in the mid-1940s.

On its lands while it lasted

Palmyra (c. 261–1929 CE): Capital of Palmyrene Empire (261–269).
Beirut (c. 1923 CE): Capital of French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon (1923–1945), Lebanon (1944–1946).