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🏺 A French town or porcelain 📜 A 1920 peace treaty
Sèvres

Sèvres

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A 1920 treaty that made the Ottoman Empire much smaller after World War I
  • proper noun
  • /ˈsɛvrə/
  • Formal
: Tratado de Sèvres
  • Following World War I, the signing of the Sèvres treaty marked a significant shift in power in the region.
  • Treaty of Sèvres

Examples

  • In the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, which was to establish the borders of Syria and Iraq, the Kurds were offered their own country.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The Sèvres agreement resulted in major territorial losses for the Ottoman Empire after its defeat in the war.

  • The 1920 Treaty of Sèvres redrew the map of the Middle East by dividing Ottoman territories among the Allies.

Surface Forms

Sèvres main

Etymology

Sèvres also names the 1920 Treaty because the important agreement was signed in the town of Sèvres. So historians use Sèvres to mean that harsh 'agreement' which took land away from the Ottoman Empire after World War I.