High_Commissioner_of_the_Levant

High Commissioner of the Levant

High Commissioner of the Levant

Highest ranking authority in the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon

The high commissioner of France in the Levant (French: haut-commissaire de France au Levant; Arabic: المندوب السامي الفرنسي على سورية ولبنان), named after 1941 the general delegate of Free France in the Levant[1] (French: délégué général de la France libre au Levant[2]), was the highest ranking authority representing France (and Free France during World War II) in the French-mandated countries of Syria and Lebanon. Its office was based in the Pine Residence in Beirut, Lebanon (present-day official residence of the French ambassador in Lebanon).

Pine Residence, Horsh district, Beirut

List of high commissioners of France in the Levant

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List of general delegates of Free France in the Levant

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References

  1. [1]
    Holt, P. M.; Lambton, Ann K. S.; Lewis, Bernard (1977). The Cambridge History of Islam. Cambridge University Press. p. 580. ISBN 9780521291361.
  2. [2]
    Malsagne, Stéphane (2011). Fouad Chéhab. p. 79.
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