'Treaty of Peace with Turkey. Signed at Sévres, August 10, 1920. [With Maps.]' [23v] (26/112)
The record is made up of 1 file (51 folios). It was created in 1920. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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marshes of Phocea belonging to the Administration of the Ottoman Public Debt,
including all plant and machinery and materials for transport by land or sea, shall not be
altered or interfered with. No tax or charge shall be imposed during this period on if
manufacture, exportation or transport of salt produced from these marshes. 11m (areek
administration will have the right to regulate and tax the consumption oi salt at oymrn.i
and within the territory defined in Article 66.
If after the expiration of the period referred to in the preceding paragraph Greece
considers it opportune to effect changes in the provisions above set forth, the salt marshes
of Phocea will be treated as a concession and the guarantees provided by Article 612,
Part IX (Economic'Clauses) will apply, subject however to the provisions of Article 246,
Part YL1I (Financial Clauses) of the present Treaty.
Article 82.
Subsequent agreements will decide all questions which are not decided by the
present Treaty and which may arise from the execution of the provisions of this Section.
Article 83.
When a period of live years shall have elapsed after the coming into force of the
present Treaty the local parliament referred to in Article 72 may, by a majority of votes,
ask the Council of the League of Nations for the definitive incorporation in the Kingdom
of Greece of the city of Smyrna and the territory defined in Article 66. The Council may
require, as a preliminary, a plebiscite under conditions which it will lay down.
In the event of such incorporation as a result of the application of the foregoing
paragraph, the Turkish sovereignty referred to in Article 69 shall cease. Turkey hereby
renounces in that event in favour of Greece all rights and title over the city of Smyrna
and the territory defined in Article 66.
SECTION V.
GREECE.
Article 84.
W ithout prejudice to the frontiers of Bulgaria laid down by the Treaty of Peace
signed at Neuilly-sur-Seine on November 27, L919, Turkey renounces in favour of Greece
all rights and title over the territories of the former Turkish Empire in Europe situated
outside the frontiers of Turkey as laid down by the present Treaty.
J he islands of the Sea of Marmora are not included in the transfer of sovereignty
effected by the above paragraph.
1 urkey further renounces in favour of Greece all her rights and title over the
islands of Imbros and I enedos. The decision taken by the Conference of Ambas
sadors at London in execution of Articles 5 of the Treaty of London of May 17/30,
1913, and 15.of the Treaty of Athens of November 1/14, 1913, and notified to
the (ireek Government on February 13, 1914, relating to the sovereignty of Greece
over the other islands ol the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly Lemnos, Samothrace,
Mytilenc, Chios, Samos and Nikaria, is confirmed, without prejudice to the provisions of
the present Ireaty relating to the islands placed under the sovereignty of Italy and
referred to in Article 122, and to the islands lying less than three miles from the coast of
Asia. {See map No. 1.)
Nevertheless, in the portion of the zone of the Straits and the islands, referred to in
Article 178, which under the present Treaty are placed under Greek sovereignty, Greece
accepts and undertakes to observe, failing any contrary stipulation in the present Treaty,
all the obligations which, in order to assure the freedom of the Straits, are imposed by
the present Treaty on J urkey in that portion of the said zone, includimr the islands of
the Sea ui Marmora, which remaius under Turkish sovereignty.
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A treaty of peace signed by the members of the League of Nations and Turkey.
The treaty is divided into a preamble followed by 13 parts. Part 1 constitutes the Covenant of the League of Nations; further parts are entitled:
- 'Frontiers of Turkey'.
- 'Political Clauses'.
- 'Protection of Minorities'.
- 'Military, Naval and Air Clauses'.
- 'Prisoners of War and Graves'.
- 'Penalties', 'Financial Clauses'.
- 'Economic Clauses'.
- 'Aerial Navigation'.
- 'Ports, Waterways and Railways'.
- 'Labour'.
- 'Miscellaneous Provisions'.
3 maps are located at the back (f 62), and the whole is contained within the original front and back covers (f 11 and f 63).
Published under the title Treaty Series No 11 (1920), Cmd. 964 .
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- 1 file (51 folios)
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This file consists of a single treaty divided into a summary.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at folio 11 and terminates at folio 63, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 11-62; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are circled and crossed through.
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