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| 1921 |
| | | An army officer, Reza Khan, becomes war minister after seizing control of Tehran with his Cossack brigade | |
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| c. 1921 |
| | | The first traces are found of a major but entirely forgotten civilization in the Indus valley | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Abdullah ibn Hussein, of the Hashemite family, becomes emir of the new province of Transjordan | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Mao Zedong leads a delegation to the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Faisal, having lost Syria, is given the throne in the British mandated territory of Iraq | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by the British in India as an agitator and is sentenced to six years in prison | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk wins a long campaign to expel the Greeks, authorized by the victorious Allies to occupy western Turkey | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The nationalist government in Turkey abolishes the sultanate and the last Ottoman emperor, Mehmed VI, goes into exile | |
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| 1923 |
| | | The Treaty of Lausanne, with more favourable terms than those negotiated at Sèvres, finally brings peace between Turkey and the Allies | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Turkey becomes a republic with Atatürk as president and Ankara as its new capital | |
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