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This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/event/Sykes-Picot-Agreement, Jewish Virtual Library - Pre-State Israel: The Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916), Yale Law School - Lillian Goldman Law Library - Avalon Project - The Sykes-Picot Agreement : 1916, 914-1918-online. 385.9469 0 ] 74 0 obj 652.9469 418.9449 458.0209 endobj 0 /Border [ 0 /Rect [ 365.0522 71 0 obj /Subtype /Link 122.7969 /ImageI ] >> /URI (http://www.newstatesman.com/200211180010) >> 64 0 obj 0 /ProcSet [ /PDF /Rect [ 218.3254 552.5719 ] /Subtype /Link 0 ] /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sherif_Hussein_bin_Ali) >> The expos embarrassed the British, since it contradicted their existing claims throughT. E. Lawrence that Arabs would receive sovereignty over Arab lands in exchange for supporting the Allies in the war. 652.9469 ] % 'Annot.NUMBER82': class PDFDictionary 158.7969 9 0 R 155.4519 % 'Annot.NUMBER68': class PDFDictionary Even before the final outcome of the Great War has been determined, Great Britain, France, and Russia secretly discussed how they would carve up the Middle East into "spheres of influence" once World War I had ended. 494.7969 ] /Type /Annot >> 51 0 obj 47 0 R 13 0 R 0 % 'Annot.NUMBER53': class PDFDictionary 0 ] On a spring day in 1948, Britain ended its mandate in Palestine. /Type /Annot >> /ImageI ] >> 0 0 ] 0 ] stream 0 40 0 obj /Type /Action 0 /Border [ 0 158.0479 0 682.9469 endobj % 'Annot.NUMBER22': class PDFDictionary 500.2377 /Border [ 0 << /A << /S /URI 7 0 obj /Parent 142 0 R 541.9469 209.9469 % 'Annot.NUMBER13': class PDFDictionary Why did Britain sign the Balfour Declaration? /Rotate 0 0 The region of Mesopotamia (now Iraq) was allocated as part of a future British sphere. 459.8629 73 0 R /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Sykes) >> 80 0 obj /Type /Action endobj /Border [ 0 endobj endobj /Subtype /Link In compensation, the British founded a new Arab kingdom for Sharif Faisal in the old Ottoman provinces in Iraq, which the British army had marched towards in 1915 and fully occupied in 1917. 0 ] 56 0 obj /Type /Annot >> Sykes-Picot: The map that spawned a century of resentment 637.9469 0 0 /Type /Annot >> 554.7969 ] /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=T._E._Lawrence) >> endobj << /A << /S /URI /Type /Action 18 0 R 127.0678 /Subtype /Link Meanwhile, according to Iraqi historian Sayyar al Jamil, the Ottomans strongholds in the Levant and Iraq, during the empires latter years, included the provinces of Damascus, Aleppo, Raqqa, Basra and Baghdad. 0 96 0 R 98 0 R /Subtype /Link << /A << /S /URI 57 0 obj % 'Annot.NUMBER61': class PDFDictionary endobj /MediaBox [ 0 /Type /Annot >> endobj Sharif Faisal entered Damascus on October 1, 1918, and founded an Arab government under his fathers rule, in an attempt to impose this new reality on Britain and France. /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russian_Revolution_%281917%29) >> /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pravda) >> Why Sykes-Picot got it all wrong | ISIL/ISIS | Al Jazeera endobj /Subtype /Link /Border [ 0 252.3863 /Type /Annot >> 79 0 obj 170.7969 /Type /Annot >> A century later, many Arabs still believe the agreement set the borders of the modern Middle East. 0 << /A << /S /URI 0 ] 736.9469 /Border [ 0 0 ] 0 ] endobj 475.9469 ] /Parent 142 0 R Articles with the HISTORY.com Editors byline have been written or edited by the HISTORY.com editors, including Amanda Onion, Missy Sullivan and Matt Mullen. /Type /Action << /A << /S /URI /Type /Annot >> /Border [ 0 % 'Annot.NUMBER83': class PDFDictionary endobj /Parent 142 0 R % 'Annot.NUMBER3': class PDFDictionary T%Q 493.16 << /A << /S /URI Despite the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the British still appeared to support Arab self-determination at first, helping usayns son Fayal and his forces press into Syria in 1918 and establish a government in Damascus. Paris Peace Conference - 1919 - and T.E. Lawrence On May 19, 1916, representatives of Great Britain and France secretly reach an accord, known as the Sykes-Picot Agreement, by which most of the Arab lands under the rule of the Ottoman Empire are . /Type /Action /ImageB 37 0 obj /Type /Annot >> 0 784.9469 ] Palestine, meanwhile, had been under the rule of British General Edmund Allenby since he entered Jerusalem in 1917. 0 ] /Border [ 0 227.9469 ] 0 60 0 obj /Type /Action /Border [ 0 /Type /Action /Rect [ 84.69291 0 ] 496.4827 endobj 0 /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sherif_Hussein_bin_Ali) >> 101 0 R ] /Rect [ 187.9135 0 ] Why did Hussein start the Persian Gulf War? 0 ] [6] The Reglement was an international agreement regarding governance and non-intervention in the affairs of the Maronite, Orthodox, Druze, and Muslim communities. 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By its terms, Russia would annex the Ottoman capital of Constantinople and retain control of the Dardanelles (the crucially important strait connecting the Black Sea with the Mediterranean) and the Gallipoli peninsula, the target of a major Allied military invasion begun in April 1915. 74 0 R 326.7969 0 319.0469 /Rect [ 62.69291 53 0 obj /Subtype /Link /URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Izvestia) >> /URI (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) >> Read about our approach to external linking. 0 /Rect [ 74.69291 Why is the Balfour Declaration controversial? - Study.com % 'Annot.NUMBER46': class PDFDictionary
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