Second Syrian Republic
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Key facts
- 1950
- Nazim al-Kudsi (first)
- Status
- Component of the, United Arab Republic , (1958–61)
- Capital
- Damascus , 33°30′N 36°18′E / 33.500°N 36.300°E / 33.500; 36.300
- Largest city
- Aleppo , 36°20′N 37°16′E / 36.333°N 37.267°E / 36.333; 37.267
- Official languages
- Arabic
- Recognised languages
- Syriac , Kurdish , Armenian
- Religion
- Islam ( all branches incl. Alawite ) , Christianity , Judaism , Druzism , Yazidism
- Demonym
- Syrian
- Government
- Military dictatorship , (1950–1951) Under one-party rule , (1951–1954) under the SARCAF Military Junta , (1961) Unitary parliamentary republic , (1954–1958, 1961–1963) Unitary Nasserist one-party state , (1958–1961)
- 1950 1951
- Hashim al-Atassi (first)
- 1961 1963
- Nazim al-Kudsi (last)
- 1952 1954
- Maamun al-Kuzbari
- 1962 1963
- Khalid al-Azm (last)
- Historical era
- Cold War
- Independence of first syrian republic
- 17 April 1946
- New constitution adopted
- 5 September 1950
- 1958 syrian united arab republic referen
- 21 February 1958
- Merger with egypt
- 22 February 1958
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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. The Second Republic was founded on the Syrian Constitution of 1950, which was suspended from 1950 to 1954 under Adib Shishakli's strongmanship, and later when Syria joined with the Republic of Egypt in forming the United Arab Republic in 1958. The Second Republic resumed when Syria withdrew from the union in 1961. In 1963, the Syrian Ba'athist Party came to power in a bloodless military coup, which laid the foundations for the political structure in Ba'athist Syria.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Second Syrian Republic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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