The Treaty of Sevres was the peace treaty between the Allied Powers and the Ottoman Empire after the First World War, signed by representatives of the Sultan. It would have broken up the empire: Arab provinces were to be placed under British and French mandates, Greece gained Smyrna and eastern Thrace, an independent Armenia and an autonomous Kurdish region were envisaged, and the Straits were to be internationalised. Turkish nationalists, led by Mustafa Kemal in Ankara, rejected the treaty and fought a war of independence. The treaty was never put into effect. It was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, which recognised the borders of modern Turkey.
Before and after
- 18 May 1920Birth of John Paul II
- 4 June 1920Treaty of Trianon
- 14 June 1920Death of Max Weber
- 25 July 1920Birth of Rosalind Franklin
- 10 August 1920Treaty of Sèvres
- 16 August 1920Birth of Charles Bukowski
- 18 August 1920The 19th Amendment gives American women the vote
- 22 August 1920Birth of Ray Bradbury
- from 20 September 1920 to 1 January 1932Founding of International Mathematical Union
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