Syrian Republic | |||||||||||||
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| 1950–1963 | |||||||||||||
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| Anthem: حُمَاةَ الدِّيَار "Ḥumāt ad-Diyār" ("Guardians of the Homeland") | |||||||||||||
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| Status | Component of the United Arab Republic (1958–61) | ||||||||||||
| Capital | Damascus | ||||||||||||
| Largest city | Aleppo | ||||||||||||
| Official languages | Arabic | ||||||||||||
| Recognised languages | Syriac Armenian Kurdish | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Islam (all branches incl. Alawite) Christianity Judaism Druzism Yezidism | ||||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Syrian | ||||||||||||
| Government | Parliamentary republic (1950–1951, 1954–1958, 1961–1963) Military dictatorship (1951–1954) | ||||||||||||
| President | |||||||||||||
• 1950–1951 | Hashim al-Atassi (first) | ||||||||||||
• 1961–1963 | Nazim al-Kudsi (last) | ||||||||||||
| Military Strongman | |||||||||||||
• 1948–1954 | Adib Shishakli | ||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | |||||||||||||
• 1950 | Nazim al-Kudsi (first) | ||||||||||||
• 1962–1963 | Khalid al-Azm (last) | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Independence of First Syrian Republic | 17 April 1946 | ||||||||||||
• New constitution adopted | 5 September 1950 | ||||||||||||
| 22 February 1958 | |||||||||||||
| 28 September 1961 | |||||||||||||
| 8 March 1963 | |||||||||||||
| Currency | Syrian pound | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Syria | ||||||||||||
The Second Syrian Republic—officially the Syrian Republic from 1950 to 1958 and the Syrian Arab Republic from 1961 to 1963—succeeded the First Syrian Republic that had become de facto independent in April 1946 from the French Mandate.
