‘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 ...
Mosul Question, Lausanne 1922-1923 and after - Papers, despatches, speeches - Hotel de la Mer at Lausanne - Correspondence about oil
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Letters and papers on the frontier between Iraq (also written as Irak in the file) and Turkey, with particular reference to Mosul and questions concerning oil. The file consists mainly of correspondence between Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs George Curzon, and officials in the Foreign Of...
Map showing northern Iraq with lines indicating Turkish-Iraq frontier and Persian-Iraq frontier. Also shown is the approximate British front line on the armistice of 30 October 1918.
