State · 1930 – 1950
First Syrian Republic
A state of 1930 – 1950 — 20 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was replaced by Second Syrian Republic and Hatay State. The atlas records 2 things within it — regime change 1 · people 1. Its line of rulers holds 9 people, 6 with dated terms. Its own article says it was replaced by Second Syrian Republic.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 20 years
- 1930 – 1950
- Rulers
- 9
- the High Commissioner
- Within it
- 2
- recorded rows
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
After it
- Hatay State · replaced by · 1938 – 1939
- Second Syrian Republic · replaced by · 1930 – 1958
How it ended, as its article says
Replaced by Second Syrian Republic, 1950-09-05. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
It was succeeded by the Second Syrian Republic upon the adoption of a new constitution on 5 September 1950.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
8 terms are shared from [object Object].
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henri Ponsot | 1930 – 1933 | 3 years | ending not on record | |
| Bahij al-Khatib · from the line of Syria | 1939 – 1941 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Shukri al-Quwatli · from the line of Syria | 1946 – 1949 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Husni al-Za'im · from the line of Syria | 1949 – 1949 | under a year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Sami al-Hinnawi · from the line of Syria | 1949 – 1949 | under a year | killedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Hashim al-Atassi · from the line of Syria | 1949 – 1951 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone |
9 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 1930 – 1951. Only 21 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 2 of 5 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.77, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flag or arms
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
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flag, undatedFlag of Syria (1930–1958, 1961–1963) · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 19992 rows · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Rifaat al-Assad · politician · 1937 – present
- March 1949 Syrian coup d'état · adverse regime change · 1949
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood20 years
stood longer than 23% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record9
has more rulers on record than 78% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Demographic-structural breakdown
Goldstone 1991 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: 2 of its 3 conditions held here (it needs 2), and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — unrest, adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- overlapping reigns — rival claimants — within 20 y, or 3 or more changes of ruler within 20 y, or 2 or more reigns of two years or less within 20 y, or a monarch deposed or killed within 20 y — handovers 5; shortReigns 2
- a war the state is fighting, still under way, or a war the state fought, ended within 10 y — warEnded
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1920 – 1960, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1940, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q26234937 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.