Palestine / Diplomacy & law / Late Ottoman period, to 1917
Sykes–Picot Agreement
May 1916Began between 1 May 1916 and 31 May 1916.
Secret Anglo-French understanding dividing Ottoman Arab provinces into zones of control and influence.
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The agreement provides for an international administration in the area marked brown on its map.
That in the brown area there shall be established an international administration
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