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Map Map to illustrate agreements in regard to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, etc. : including the Sykes-Picot arrangement of 1916 in regard to Syria and Palestine

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Title

  • Map to illustrate agreements in regard to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, etc. : including the Sykes-Picot arrangement of 1916 in regard to Syria and Palestine

Names

  • Great Britain. Foreign Office. Research Department.

Created / Published

  • [London] : Foreign Office, 1964.

Headings

  • -  World War, 1914-1918--Territorial questions--Middle East--Maps
  • -  Boundary disputes--Middle East--Maps
  • -  Middle East--History--20th century--Maps
  • -  Syria--History--1516-1918--Maps
  • -  Iraq--History--1534-1921--Maps
  • -  Palestine--History--1799-1917--Maps
  • -  Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Administrative and political divisions--Maps
  • -  Sykes, Mark,--1879-1919
  • -  Georges-Picot, François,--1870-1951
  • -  Middle East
  • -  Syria
  • -  Iraq
  • -  Palestine
  • -  Turkey

Genre

  • Maps

Notes

  • -  Shows the partition in three zones, (A) : Independent Arab State in the French sphere -- (B) Independent Arab state in the British sphere -- (C) Italian sphere influence.
  • -  Shows in colors: International sphere, French sphere, British sphere, Italian sphere, Russian sphere, international frontiers, and boundary of Mandated Palestine.
  • -  "Sykes-Picot Agreement", officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement was negotiated between November 1915 and March 1916. This treaty had effectively divided the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire outside the Arabian Peninsula into areas of future British and French Mandates. The treaty was concluded on 16 May 1916.
  • -  "M.F.R. ; Map 1."

Medium

  • 1 map : mounted on cloth, color ; 25 x 39 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G7421.S65 1964 .G71

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2014587996

Online Format

  • image

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Great Britain. Foreign Office. Research Department. Map to illustrate agreements in regard to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, etc.: including the Sykes-Picot arrangement ofin regard to Syria and Palestine. [London: Foreign Office, 1964] Map. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2014587996/.

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Great Britain. Foreign Office. Research Department. (1964) Map to illustrate agreements in regard to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, etc.: including the Sykes-Picot arrangement ofin regard to Syria and Palestine. [London: Foreign Office] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2014587996/.

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Great Britain. Foreign Office. Research Department. Map to illustrate agreements in regard to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, etc.: including the Sykes-Picot arrangement ofin regard to Syria and Palestine. [London: Foreign Office, 1964] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2014587996/>.