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At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
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1920 meeting on post-WWI Ottoman territories
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Territories administered on behalf of the LN
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Turkish empire (c. 1299–1922)
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