19 maio 1916 ano - Sykes-picot agreement

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Officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret 1916 agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
For Iraq: Agreement allocated to Britain control of areas roughly comprising the coastal strip between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan, Jordan, southern Iraq, and an additional small area that included the ports of Haifa and Acre, to allow access to the Mediterranean.[8] France got control of southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.[8] Russia was to get Istanbul, the Turkish Straits and Armenia.

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