Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The state of Greater Lebanon, the predecessor of modern Lebanon, was created in 1920 .The French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon was a League of Nations Mandate created at the end of World War I. When the Ottoman Empire was formally split up by the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920, it was decided that four of its territories in the Middle East should be League of Nations mandates temporarily governed by the United Kingdom and France on behalf of the League. The British were given Palestine and Iraq, while the French were given a mandate over Syria and Lebanon .On September 1, 1920, General Gouraud proclaimed the establishment of State of Greater Lebanon (Arabic: دولة لبنان الكبير Dawlat Lubnan Al-Kabir; French: État du Grand Liban) with its present boundaries after splitting few Syrian villages on the southern and western borders with Lebanon and adding them to Lebanon and with Beirut as its capital. The new territory was granted a flag, merging the French flag with the Lebanese cedar.. }
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- Greater_Lebanon abstract "The state of Greater Lebanon, the predecessor of modern Lebanon, was created in 1920 .The French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon was a League of Nations Mandate created at the end of World War I. When the Ottoman Empire was formally split up by the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920, it was decided that four of its territories in the Middle East should be League of Nations mandates temporarily governed by the United Kingdom and France on behalf of the League. The British were given Palestine and Iraq, while the French were given a mandate over Syria and Lebanon .On September 1, 1920, General Gouraud proclaimed the establishment of State of Greater Lebanon (Arabic: دولة لبنان الكبير Dawlat Lubnan Al-Kabir; French: État du Grand Liban) with its present boundaries after splitting few Syrian villages on the southern and western borders with Lebanon and adding them to Lebanon and with Beirut as its capital. The new territory was granted a flag, merging the French flag with the Lebanese cedar.".