However, as a result of negotiations between the western powers at the San Remo conference, and the Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France, the French had set up the republic on the remnants of a former Ottoman Christian-majority autonomous province.
However, as a result of negotiations between the western powers at the San Remo conference, and the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France although the French weren't given a mandate over Syria by the League of Nations. The French had set up the republic on the remnants of a former Ottoman Christian-majority autonomous province.