The first elements of this new army came from the former 156th Infantry Division (French: 156ème Division d’Infanterie) of the Allied Army of the Orient, under general Julien Dufieux command. This division de Cilicie included a metropolitan regiment, the 412th Infantry Regiment (French: 412ème Régiment d'Infanterie), a colonial régiment, the 17th Senegalese Trailleurs Regiment (French: 17ème Régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais), a French Armenian Legion regiment and the 18th Algerian Tirailleurs Regiment (French: 18ème régiment de Tirailleurs Algériens). In 1920 this division became the first of four Divisions of the Levant.