Complex sentence: Traditionally, this role had been dominated by the al-Atrash family since the defeat of the Lebanese Druze in 1860, but in 1923, shortly after the agreement made with the French, Selim al-Atrash resigned.
Split into simpler sentences: Traditionally, this role had been dominated by the al-Atrash family since the defeat of the Lebanese Druze in 1860,. But in 1923, shortly after the agreement made with the French, Selim al-Atrash resigned.