1919 British map ahead of Paris Peace Conference - extract regarding 1916 Sazonov–Paléologue Agreement

The Sazonov–Paléologue Agreement was a 26 April 1916 letter from

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Sergey Sazonov Sergei Dmitryevich Sazonov GCB (Russian: Сергей Дмитриевич Сазонов; 10 August 1860 in Ryazan Governorate 11 December 1927) was a Russian statesman and diplomat who served as Foreign Minister from November 1910 to July 1916 ...

to French ambassador to Russia Maurice Paléologue regarding

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and the Anglo-French

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. The agreement for Russia influence over Western Armenia was given in return for Russian assent to the Sykes-Picot arrangement. The agreement took place on the first anniversary of the

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. Russia was allocated the vilayets of Erzurum, Trebizond,

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and

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; much of which was under Russian occupation at the time.

Bibliography

The Allies and Armenia, 1915-18
Richard G. Hovannisian, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Jan., 1968), pp. 145-168

References

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