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 ...