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The partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after the war led to the domination of the Middle East by Western powers such as Britain and France, and saw the creation of the modern Arab world and the Republic of Turkey. Resistance to the influence of these powers came from the Turkish National Movement but did not become widespread in the other post ...
Main signatories (other than the Ottoman Empire) 1403 Treaty of Gallipoli: Byzantine Empire and Republic of Venice: 1411 Treaty of Selymbria: Republic of Venice: 1419 Ottoman–Venetian: Republic of Venice: 1444 Szeged and Edirne: Hungary 1454 Constantinople (1454) Republic of Venice 1479 Constantinople (1479) Republic of Venice 1533 ...
First Balkan War: The Ottoman Empire is nearly wiped out from Europe, save for Istanbul and just enough land around to defend it. 1914: August 2: The Empire enters into World War I on the side of the Central Powers. Cyprus is annexed outright by Britain. 1915: April 24: The Ottoman Empire initiates forced deportation of Armenians. 1915: April 25
Austria declares war on Serbia; beginning of First World War. 2 August Ottoman Empire signs Ottoman–German alliance. 29 October After Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau Ottoman navy under German command shells Russian targets. 2 November Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire. 5 November Britain declares war on Ottoman Empire. 5 November
The Sykes–Picot Agreement (/ ˈ s aɪ k s ˈ p iː k oʊ,-p ɪ ˈ k oʊ,-p iː ˈ k oʊ / [1]) was a 1916 secret treaty between the United Kingdom and France, with assent from Russia and Italy, to define their mutually agreed spheres of influence and control in an eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire.
The Treaty of Sèvres (August 10, 1920) was the peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Allies at the end of World War I. The Treaty of Versailles was signed with Germany before this treaty to annul the German concessions including the economic rights and enterprises.
Adakale Island in River Danube was forgotten during the peace talks at the Congress of Berlin in 1878, which allowed it to remain a de jure Ottoman territory and the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II's private possession until the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 (de facto until Romania unilaterally declared its sovereignty on the island in 1919 and ...
A map showing the partition of the Ottoman Empire as a result of the Treaty of Sèvres. August 10 The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Sèvres with the Allied powers (except the US, which never declared war on Turkey). The treaty partitions the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish armed forces are reduced in size. Greece did not accept the borders ...