The history of mail and postage stamps of Syria, a state in Western Asia, in the Middle East, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea in the west, Turkey in the north, Iraq in the east, Jordan in the south and Israel in the southwest, is conventionally divided into the following stages of postal development connections: the period of being part of the Ottoman Empire until 1919; the period of French military occupation, during which postage stamps for the occupied Syrian territory began to be issued in 1919; the period of French rule under the mandate of the League of Nations, with the issue of postage stamps since 1924; period of Syrian independence since 1941, officially since 1946. Independent Syria was admitted to the Universal Postal Union in 1946.