Losing the War and Fighting the Settlement: The Post-Ottoman Middle East Takes Shape, 1918-1922
Events in the Former Ottoman Realms, 1918 1923
October 1, 1918 British with Faysal in Damascus
October 26, 1918 Kemal’s withdrawal from Aleppo to regroup just north
of Aleppo at al Raci on the rail line. The line becomes the armistice line and the eventual Turkish Syrian border
October 30, 1918 Armistice of Mudros
December 1918 Armenian Legion lands in Mersin
January 1919 Committees of National Rights
February 1919 British evacuate Cilicia in advance of
French Armenian occupation
March 1919 French forces occupy Ottoman Black Sea coal ports
May 1919 British and French ships land Greek troops at Izmir
September 1919 Sivas Conference
October 1919 General Gouraud lands at Beirut
January 1920 Ramadan Shallash takes Dayr al Zur on Euphrates
Beginning of Iraq Revolt March 1920 Syrian National Congress
April 4 7, 1920 Jerusalem uprising
April 23, 1920 Inaugural Assembly of the Ankara Government
April 25, 1920 San Remo Conference concludes, mandates
announced
May 28, 1920 Kemal defeats French backed Armenians, comes to
terms with French ceasefire agreement May October 1920 Iraq Revolt intensifies and spreads July 1920 Battle of Maysalun and French occupation of
Damascus
December 1920 Palestinian Congress Haifa
March 1921 Churchill’s Cairo Conference decides to offer Iraq to
Faysal and Transjordan to cAbdallah.
May 1921 Palestine May Day Protests
October 1922 Mudanya ceasefire
November 1922 Sultanate abolished
November 1922 Lausanne Treaty conference commences
