GEO 522 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arthur Balfour, Merriam-Webster, Human Geography
16 Apr 2018
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Emergence of the middle east into the modern state system. Political geography of the middle east: according to collins, is a branch of human geography that deals with the relationships between political processes and spatial structures (regions, territories) Focus of this course on the middle east. The ottoman empire: pre ww1 period, european war time agreements for the partition of ottoman territory, the constantinople agreement (1915, britain"s agreement with the arab movement (1915-16) The ottoman empire wasn"t able to pay the debts the european creditors then: the sykes-picot agreement (1916, the balfour declaration (1917, end of ottoman empire (1918) started to take over the empire as the debt payment. British foreign secretary arthur james balfour (signed in 1917) Colonization of the middle east: france: algeria (colony), morocco and tunisia (protectorates), syria and. Lebanon (league of nations mandates: britain: egypt (under british influence), south yemen (colony), palestine, Transjordan, iraq (mandates) , kuwait, bahrain, qatar (under treaty arrangements)
