Word: jebel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. The Jebel Druses, numbering some 6,000 fighting men under command of Sultan El Atrash Pasha, have sufficiently demonstrated their ability to keep the 20,000 French and French colonial troops sent against them from pacifying Syria. It is conceded by experts that with 30,000 more French troops, General Andreas could probably wipe out the Druses...
Four columns of Italian colonial troops set out with two detachments of machine gunners last week to mop up the Jebel-el-Akdar, a mountainous rebel-infested region, whence the peace of Italian Cyrenaica?a coastal area directly across the Mediterranean from Greece?is often threatened...
...rebellious and half-nomadic peoples whose sporadic attacks make it so difficult and expensive for France to administer Syria as a League of Nations mandate. Last week M. de Jouvenel announced that he had received overtures of peace from Sultan Atrash, the warrior chief of the extremely turbulent Jebel Druses. The French peace terms were promptly announced...
...Druse Mejliss (Parliament) to be convened for the purpose of adopting the constitution and deciding whether the Jebel Druse territory (literally the Mountain of the Druses) is to be constituted as an independent nation or attached to the Syrian Federation of which Damascus is the capital...
Travelers recalled that "Sultan" El Atrash dwells like a feudal lord in a tribal castle, "with walls more than a metre thick," which is perched upon a rocky crag of the Jebel Druz.** It has been alleged that he regards the whole Franco-Druse war as having sprung up because he killed a French officer "to avenge the arrest of a tribesman who was the Sultan's guest." Since that time (1921), El Atrash has employed against the French not only his temporal authority, but the influence of the religious cult which distinguishes his fellow tribesmen, a mixture...