Person1879 – 1919
Mark Sykes
British diplomatic adviser and MP who negotiated the division of the Ottoman Arab lands with France’s Picot
Where they went
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With Russia’s assent, Britain and France secretly agreed to divide the Ottoman Empire’s Arab lands between them after the war.
People who appear alongside
- François Georges-Picot1870 – 1951
French diplomat who concluded the Sykes–Picot Agreement with Britain’s Mark Sykes
Themes this person appears in
- National Movements in Asia and Africa1915 – 1948
From the Hussein–McMahon correspondence to the founding of Israel — three decades in which India, West Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa, swept up in the tide of self-determination after the First World War, pressed toward independence and modernization