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Treaty · 1920
The Treaty of Sèvres was a 1920 treaty signed between some of the Allies of World War I and the Ottoman Empire, but not ratified. The treaty would have required the cession of large parts of Ottoman territory to France, the United Kingdom, Greece, and Italy, as well as creating large occupation zones within the Ottoman Empire. It was one of a series of treaties that the Central Powers signed with the Allied Powers after their defeat in World War I. Hostilities had already ended with the Armistice of Mudros. The treaty was signed on 10 August 1920 in an exhibition room at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres porcelain factory in Sèvres, France.
| Signed | 10 August 1920 |
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| Place of signing | Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, Sèvres, France |
| Parties | Principal Allied Powers, British Empire, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, France, Italy, Japan, Allied Powers, Armenia, Belgium, Greece, Hejaz, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Czechoslovakia, Central Power, Ottoman Empire |
The treaty imposed a number of territorial losses on Turkey and had a number of provisions that applied to the territory recognised as belonging to Turkey. The Allies were to control the Ottoman Empire's finances, such as approving and supervising the national budget, implementing financial laws and regulations and totally controlling the Ottoman Bank. The Ottoman Public Debt Administration, instituted in 1881, was redesigned to include only British, French, and Italian bondholders. The Ottoman debt problem had dated back to the time of the Crimean War (1854–1856) during which the Ottoman Empire had borrowed money from abroad, mainly from France.
Took place during the reign of Mehmed VI (1918–1922). Mehmed VI
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