page_title: Deir ez-Zor
section_title: The first government of Haj Fadel
hierarchical_section_title: Deir ez-Zor / History / Post World War I / The first government of Haj Fadel
caption_attribution_description: العربية: صورة قديمة للحاج فاضل عبود ما قبل عام 1918
context_page_description: Deir ez-Zor is the largest city in eastern Syria and the seventh largest in the country. Located 450 km to the northeast of the capital Damascus on the banks of the Euphrates River, Deir ez-Zor is the capital of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate. In the 2004 census, it had a population of 211,857 people.
context_section_description: Trouble broke out in the city of Deir al-Zour after the Ottomans left on 6 November 1918, where people began looting and stealing from each other across the area, so it was necessary to have a strong authority for protecting the city and its people and that led Al-Hassan who was the mayor to form his first government in the city and asking all tribal leaders in the villages and surrounding districts to support him and pledge allegiance to him. One of the priorities of this government was maintain the security and running the affairs of the city. This government later known as the "Haj Fadel Government".
  The government continued until the arrival of Sharif Nasser, the cousin of prince Faisal Bin Al-Hussein, on 1 December 1918, and Mar'i Pasha al-Mallah on 7 December 1918.
caption: Fadel Al-Aboud
  President of Deir al-Zour government in 1918 and 1920.
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