PhotographAA-0194

Proposed autonomous Assyrian state, map presented at Lausanne, 1923

Date: 1923

Hand-coloured map of the region between Van, Urmia and Mosul, with a red boundary around a proposed "Assyrian Millat" and coloured zones, presented by the Assyrian leaders to the Lausanne Conference in 1923.

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The National Archives (UK), via its blog "Britain and Assyrian refugees after the First World War" (16 June 2020)

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Proposed autonomous Assyrian state, map presented at Lausanne, 1923

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