Médaille commémorative de Syrie-Cilicie
| Syria-Cilicia Commemorative Medal | |
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Levant Medal
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Awarded by  France |
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| Type | Campaign medal |
| Eligibility | French nationals, soldiers attached/ under French flag |
| Awarded for | Middle Eastern campaigns between 11 November 1918 and 30 September 1926 |
| Clasps | "Levant" and "1925-Levant-1926" |
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| Established | 18 July 1922 |
| Precedence | |
| Next (higher) | Médaille commémorative de la guerre 1914–1918 |
| Next (lower) | Dardanelles Campaign Medal |
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The Syria-Cilicia Medal (French: "Médaille commémorative de Syrie-Cilicie") was a French decoration awarded to military personnel engaged in the hostilities that erupted in the Middle East in the immediate aftermath of World War I.
Instituted in 1922, this campaign medal was awarded by the French Government for military service in the interwar period, to those serving on its behalf, since 1918, against de facto powers in The Levant.
The began in January 1920 when the Arab Kingdom of Syria engaged French armed forces in what would become called the Franco-Syrian War. This campaign ended on 24 July 1920, when French troops entered Damascus abolishing the Arab Kingdom of Syria. Turkey took advantage of the situation by also engaging France in what is now called the Franco-Turkish War pitting the French Colonial Forces and French Armenian Legion against the Turkish forces known as the Kuva-yi Milliye. This campaign, running from May 1920 to October 1921 resulted in French partial occupation of Turkish territory.
An uneasy peace ensued which was broken on 23 August 1925 when Sultan Pasha al-Atrash declared revolution against France, thus starting the Great Syrian Revolt (also called the Great Druze Revolt), which took several years for the French Government to subdue.
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