Sykes–Picot Agreement

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The Sykes–Picot Agreement () 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.

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Image: Royal Geographical Society (Map), Mark Sykes & François Georges-Picot (Annotations), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.