Syrian nationalism

The Syrian nationalism is the idea of a Syrian nation based on a history and a common culture.

Syrian nationalism is not to confuse with the Arab Nationalisme, which is regarded by the Syrian nationalists as a nationalism based on a language and a not very common history.

Syrian nationalism exists since the Ottoman Empire and claims the union of the Bilad el-Cham.

Syrian nationalism is defined today like a will of reunification of the " Large Syria " , term used for differentiated with the Syria from the Agreement Sykes-Barb. In Arabic, the term used by the Syrian nationalists is Syria, and current Syria is called " el-Cham".

During different the mandates French and brittanic in the area, this Syria includes/understands the French Mandat in Syria (today Syria, the Lebanon and the Cilicie in Turkey), the Palestine agent (today Israel, the Palestinian Territoires and the the Sinai in Egypt) and the Transjordanie (today Jordan). The Syrian nationalist philosopher Antoun Saadé, following studies, integrates into this Syria the British Mandat in Iraq (today the Iraq, the Kuwait and Chatt-el-Arab in Iran) and Cyprus which it associates with Antioche.

Antoun Saadé creates in November 1932 the Syrian nationalist party, which will become later the Parti social nationalist Syrian (PSNS). He sees himself competing with first once in 1936 by the Lebanese Phalanges (or Kataëb), Lebanese nationalist (at the time, France wishes to make of Lebanon a state reserved for the Chrétiens of the East, the Kataëb party is exclusively Christian), and in 1947 by the Parti Baath, nationalist Arabic, with whom he shows to have plagiarized his ideas.

Syrian nationalism is thus organized around a laic political party. Today, of many islamist political parties adopted Syrian nationalism.

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