Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

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

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Hatay State: 1938 – 1939Second Syrian Republic: 1930 – 1958First Syrian Republic: 1930 – 1950

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

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.

Henri Ponsot · 1930 – 1933 · no death date to read the end againstBahij al-Khatib · 1939 – 1941 · left office aliveShukri al-Quwatli · 1946 – 1949 · left office aliveHusni al-Za'im · 1949 – 1949 · died in office, manner not recordedSami al-Hinnawi · 1949 – 1949 · killedHashim al-Atassi · 1949 – 1951 · left office alive19301935194019451950
killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on record

8 terms are shared from [object Object].

RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Henri Ponsot1930 – 19333 yearsending not on record
Bahij al-Khatib · from the line of Syria1939 – 19412 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Shukri al-Quwatli · from the line of Syria1946 – 19493 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Husni al-Za'im · from the line of Syria1949 – 1949under a yeardied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Sami al-Hinnawi · from the line of Syria1949 – 1949under a yearkilledWikidata's manner of death
Hashim al-Atassi · from the line of Syria1949 – 19512 yearsleft 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.

  • Flag of Syria (1930–1958, 1961–1963)
    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

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.

First Syrian Republic · 1930 – 1950First Syrian RepublicSecond Syrian Republic · Linked · 1930 – 1958Second Syrian Republic19201930194019501960
linked

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

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.