Order of the Umayyads

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Order of the Umayyads
Awarded by Syria
Type	Order
Status	Currently constituted
Sovereign	Bashar al-Assad
Grades	Member 1st Class Member 2nd Class Member 3rd Class
Precedence
Next (higher)	None
Next (lower)
Ribbon bar of the order

The Order of the Umayyads (Arabic: وسام أمية الوطني) is the highest order of Syria.

History[]

The order has been founded on 12 July 1934.^[1] It is named after the Umayyad Caliphate which ruled Syria as their main power base, and set Damascus as the capital.

Classes[]

The order is composed of the following classes :

• Member 1st Class
• Member 2nd Class
• Member 3rd Class

Insignia[]

• The sash is green with thin black borders and white stripes.

Recipients[]

• Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
• Al-Waleed bin Talal
• Anwar Sadat
• Elias IV of Antioch
• Juan Domingo Perón^[2]
• Émile Lahoud
• Farouk of Egypt
• Giorgio Napolitano
• Haile Selassie
• Hosni Mubarak
• Hussein of Jordan
• Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa
• Mohammed V of Morocco
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
• Mustafa Tlass
• Qaboos bin Said al Said
• Sirajuddin of Perlis
• Suharto
• Anatoly Bibilov

References[]

External links[]

• Pictures of the Order