1916SykesPicotWiki

Middle East

Spheres of influ­ence grant­ed (imag­ined) by the almost still­born Sykes-Picot-Sazonov Agree­ment, 1916. Dark blue: French occu­pa­tion. Light blue: French pro­tec­torate. Red: British occu­pa­tion. Pink: British pro­tec­torate. Green: Russ­ian occu­pa­tion. Magen­ta: “inter­na­tion­al zones.”
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