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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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Not Istanbul?
Constantinople! Italy is going to start a special operation to free the suppressed
RomanItalian minorities any second now!Also, watch us Germans blitz to Königsberg!
I have “A Line in the Sand” by James Barr lying around somewhere. Pretty good read on the topic.
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.