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TIL the Sykes-Picot Agreement that was meant to partition the Ottoman Empire after WWI awarded Constantinople to Russiа.
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sanitation lemmy.today sanitation@lemmy.today
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Onomatopoeia lemmy.cafe Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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Not Istanbul?

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einkorn feddit.org einkorn@feddit.org
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Not Istanbul?

Constantinople! Italy is going to start a special operation to free the suppressed Roman Italian minorities any second now!

Also, watch us Germans blitz to Königsberg!

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remon ani.social remon@ani.social
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I have "A Line in the Sand" by James Barr lying around somewhere. Pretty good read on the topic.

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Fleur_ aussie.zone Fleur_@aussie.zone
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I'm still awed by how alright Türkiye has done all things considered. I mean their predecessor state lost ww1 and then they decided they weren't going to lose and then didn't. It's like if France won at Waterloo and then everyone left them to it.

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