‘TREATY OF PEACE WITH TURKEY, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS Signed at Lausanne on July 24, 1923, together with Agreements between Greece and Turkey signed on January 30, 1923, and Subsidiary Documents forming part of THE TURKISH PEACE SETTLEMENT.’
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A printed copy of the Treaty of Peace with Turkey, commonly referred to as the Treaty of Lausanne. The treaty was signed on 24 July 1923 and formally ended the conflict between the Ottoman Empire and other nations (including Great Britain) that had begun at the onset of the First World War. The ...
‘FRONTIER OF TURKEY IN EUROPE; DEMILITARIZED ZONES OF THE STRAITS AND IN THRACE; THE ISLANDS (DODEKANESIA); GALLIPOLI PENINSULA’
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Map of south-eastern Europe (Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria) affected by the Treaty of Lausanne. The map indicates coastline, hydrology, and human settlements. Also marked on the map are: the Turkish frontier (solid red line); the demilitarised zone in Thrace (blue crosshatch); the demilitarised zones...
‘Correspondence with the Canadian Government on the subject of the peace settlement with Turkey.’
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Copies of correspondence exchanged between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Governor-General of Canada, on the subject of the Peace Settlement with Turkey, commonly referred to as the Treaty of Lausanne. The correspondence covers the period 27 October 1922 to 24 March 1924. The fi...
Papers relating to transfer of Middle Eastern Affairs to the Colonial Office and creation of a new Department there, 1920-1921, with Cabinet notes of Milner, Montague, Churchill, self, and others
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The file contains correspondence, minutes, memoranda, and reports concerning the administration of Mesopotamia and other Middle Eastern territories and the transfer of responsibility for Middle Eastern Affairs to a new department within the Colonial Office. Authors and correspondents include Cur...
Letters and Papers on the Mesopotamia Commission and the Cabinet Committee on Iraq
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The file contains memoranda, correspondence, and other papers relating to the Mesopotamia [Iraq] Commission (the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the Mesopotamia campaign), British policy in relation to Mesopotamia after the First World War, and the Cabinet Committee on Iraq. These pap...
The map shows Mesopotamia [Iraq], and part of Western Persia [Iran] East of the Turco-Persian boundary, with the boundary being indicated by a dashed and dotted line. Ottoman administrative divisions in the form of vilayets [provinces] and sanjaks [districts] are also indicated, as are Headquart...
The map shows Mesopotamia [Iraq], and part of western Persia [Iran] east of the Turco-Persian boundary, with the boundary being indicated by a dashed and dotted line. It shows different ethnic groups occupying different parts of Mesopotamia: Arabs in pink; Kurds (including Yezidis) in yellow; an...
‘MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE AGREEMENTS OF 1916 IN REGARD TO ASIA MINOR, MESOPOTAMIA, & c.’
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Classified 'SECRET'. The map bears a secondary title 'A MAP OF TURKEY IN ASIA'. It shows the Asian territories of the Ottoman Empire outside of the Arabian Peninsula, including Asia Minor [Anatolia] and Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Depicts a proposed division of the Ottoman Empire into spheres of infl...
File containing correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the creation of the League of Nations mandates, by which the administration of former colonies of Germany and the Ottoman Empire [Turkey] was granted variously to the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Japan. Much of the file i...
The Establishment of Mandates, Principally: Mesopotamia, Palestine and Syria
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This file contains papers relating to the establishment of mandates which were drawn up under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations (signed on 28 June 1919 as part of the Treaty of Versailles that officially ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers). The papers ...
