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Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Télégramme, à Bogota. Indépendance du Liban, Paris, le 25 Novembre, 1920.

Item

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Title

Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Télégramme, à Bogota. Indépendance du Liban, Paris, le 25 Novembre, 1920.

Subject

Reactions after the Declaration of Greater Lebanon

Description

November 25, 1920.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs in Bogota

“I would be obliged to report that you must confirm to the Lebanese in the country of your residence, that the independence of Greater Lebanon under the French mandate was proclaimed on September 1. The Bekaa, Tyr, and Saida, Beirut, and Tripoli have been attached. The flag adopted by the population is the tricolor flag carrying a cedar in the white band.”

Source

France. Ministère des Affaires étrangères
Direction des Affaires Politiques et Commerciales
Archives Diplomatiques
Série: E-Levant 1918-1929
Sous -Série: Syrie-Liban-Cilicie
Reel 126
P. 41

Date

1920

Language

French

Citation

“Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Télégramme, à Bogota. Indépendance du Liban, Paris, le 25 Novembre, 1920.,” AUB Libraries Online Exhibits, accessed December 3, 2024, https://online-exhibit.aub.edu.lb/items/show/3709.