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| 1920–50 |
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| Growth of the educational system. Figures for students attending schools increased from 50,000 to about 300,000. But as elsewhere in the Middle East, educational opportunities for the overwhelming majority of people remained scarce. | 1 |
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| 1921, Oct. 20 |
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| The Ankara Agreement between France and the Kemalist government in Turkey, in which France gave up all territorial claims north of Syria. | 2 |
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| 1922 |
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| Approval of the French mandate for Syria by the League of Nations. | 3 |
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| 1923 |
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| Abolition of the Capitulations. | 4 |
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| April |
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| Arrival of the new French high commissioner, Gen. Maxime Weygand, who served until Jan. 1925. | 5 |
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