The 1920 Treaty of Sèvres that partitioned the Ottoman Empire after the First World War
included precise provisions for the creation of a “Zone of Smyrna,” a territory to be …

This chapter, by exploring the local, national and imperial debates over the delimitation of
the Turkish-Syrian border, will analyze the interrelated processes of organization of …

This paper studies the delimitation of the Turkish-Syrian border in the 1920s and 1930s in
order to illustrate the dynamic relationship between the development of modern borders …

The evolution, nature and characteristics of boundary mapping in Central and Eastern
Europe were distinctive, especially considering the imperial borders of states neighbouring …

Any understanding of the transformation from indirect imperial to centralized nation-state
rule must consider the complex interplay between knowledge production, sovereignty, and …

Sažetak In the late days of the First World War and the immediate post-war period, when the
map of Europe, and other parts of the world controlled by European colonial powers, was …

An important feature of our analysis is the notion of the politics of the rear front, which was
introduced in a previous study1. This notion aims to describe the political implications of the …

This article studies the delimitation of the Turkish-Syrian border in the 1920s and 1930s in
order to illustrate the dynamic relationship between the development of modern borders …

This is a study on the material and symbolic re-configuration of urban spaces and population
structures in the processes of the transition from the Ottoman empire to the Turkish nation …

Scholars have published widely on the geostrategic aspect of the First World War, how the
French and the British divided the Arab lands after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire. In this …