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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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mandated territories
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Those parts of the empires of Germany and Turkey which after World War I were administered, under mandate from the League of Nations, by individual members of the Allied group of nations. Each mandate was seen as a period of trusteeship leading towards independence. The most important were the Turkish provinces of the Middle East, which had at the time no national boundaries. The area was apportioned as three mandated territories; *Iraq and *Palestine (including *Transjordan) were administered by Britain, and Syria (including Lebanon) by France. The mandates ended with the independence of Iraq in 1932, of Syria and Lebanon in 1941, of Jordan in 1946 and Israel in 1948.
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