A map showing Asia Minor and the proposed settlement of the Arab countries into distinct territories. The map shows details of topography, major settlements, and political boundaries. Over this are drawn thick black lines that delineate the different territories in question, such as Syria, Irak ...
A map showing parts of the Near and Middle East, including Turkey, Iran, and the Arabian Peninsula. The map gives details of geography, topography, major settlements, and some political boundaries. The Hejaz region of the Arabian Peninsula has been outlined in red, probably to indicate the bound...
A map showing Great Britain's colonial possessions
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A map showing much of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, with Great Britain's colonial possessions shaded in pink. The map shows a few related place names. The map features the printing statement 'Stanford's Geographical Establishment, London'.
Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia
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A map showing parts of Turkey, Persia, and Arabia. The map gives details of geography, topography, human settlement, hydrology, railways, and some political boundaries. Over the original map has been drawn two distinct areas, labelled A and B and outlined in blue and red, respectively. These in...
This file contains correspondence, memoranda, maps, manuscript notes, and other papers relating to the political and territorial settlement of parts of the Middle East following the First World War. Many of the papers were collected for the attention of the Middle East Committee (later named the...
Papers written by Curzon on the Near and Middle East
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The file contains correspondence, memoranda, maps, and notes on various subjects connected to the Near and Middle East. The majority of the papers are written by George Curzon himself and concern the settlement of former territories of the Ottoman Empire following its break up after the First Wo...
The file contains correspondence, memoranda, notes, and a map concerning various aspects of the post-First World War settlement of the Near and Middle East. The file covers the discussion around the Sykes-Picot Agreement (also known as the Asia Minor Agreement; see folios 1-3) and the settlement...
‘The Capitulations. What they are, and what effect their abolition will have upon the status of British subjects in Turkey, upon their interests, their liberties and upon British trade generally.’
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A copy of a memorandum, submitted on behalf of the non-official British community in Constantinople [Istanbul], and printed and published by Page & Thomas Limited, London. The capitulations referred to in the volume’s title were grants made by successive Sultans of the Ottoman Empire to othe...
‘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...
