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Sykes–Picot Agreement

The Sykes–Picot Agreement was a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from Russia and Italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire.

Sykes–Picot Agreement
Sykes–Picot Agreement · Royal Geographical Society (Map), Mark Sykes & François Georges-Picot (Annotations), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
16 May 1916
Where
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Era
Modern

Topics

World War I1914 – 1918

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