The Occupied Enemy Territory Administration was a joint British, French and Arab military administration over the Levantine provinces – which had been part of the Ottoman Empire for four centuries – b
Results of the King–Crane Commission Petitions received from OETA South (became Palestine), OETA West (became Lebanon and Western Syria) and OETA East (became Syria and Transjordan); it has been described as "the first-ever survey of Arab public opinion".
This draft British Telegram of September 1919, ordering the withdrawal of British troops from the French and Arab areas of the OETA, was prepared shortly after the Franco-British conference at Deauville. The line in point 5 became known as the "Deauville Line"
Major General Sir Louis Jean Bols, KCB, DSO
Sharifian Solution
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The Sharifian or Sherifian Solution was an informal name for post-Ottoman British Middle East policy and French Middle East policy of nation-building. At first put forward by T. E. Lawrence in 1918, i
Syrian National Congress, Damascus 1919–1920 On the steps of the Arab Club building
Seated: from right: Winston Churchill, Herbert Samuel Standing first row: from left: Gertrude Bell, Sir Sassoon Eskell, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, Jafar Pasha al-Askari
Coronation of Prince Faisal as King of Iraq, 1921
The sons of Hussein: Ali, Abdullah and Faisal, in the mid-1920s