Asia Minor, Syria & Mesopotamia

A map of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and western Iran. This map is of great interest as it shows some important geo-political features of the interwar period which still reverberate in world affairs to this day.

The first of these is the clear marking of the Sykes-Picot Line across the Levant which divided French Syria from British Palestine. Second is the inclusion of “Wilsonian Armenia”, or the borders claimed by the Armenian Republic at the Treaty of Sevres. President Wilson of the United States supported Armenia's claims, hence the name, which included former Ottoman territory in eastern Anatolia, access to the southern shores of the Black Sea, and the city of Erzurum. Thirdly, the map also shows the short lived Greek ownership of Smyrna (Izmir), granted to the Greeks after the War by the Treaty of Sevres.

Printed colour.