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MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · May 16

THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 16

May 16 in history

1916 — The Sykes–Picot line

16 May 1916 — The same year as the promises to Hussein, Britain and France secretly rule lines across the post-Ottoman Middle East: “A” for France, “B” for Britain. The Bolsheviks publish the map in 1917. The double promise shapes a century.

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