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    ​A map showing the regions where the famous Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire took place (1916-1918)
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    ​A map showing the regions where the famous Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire took place (1916-1918)

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    1. Ein_Hirsch on

      This map puts a lot of effort into showing where the Arab Revolt *didn’t* take place

    4. Zealousideal_Till683 on

      This is a bizarre map. Firstly, why and how would people not in the Ottoman empire revolt against the Ottomans? You may as well say there was no anti-Ottoman revolt in Japan.

      Secondly, those red areas are the areas they successfully conquered, not the areas where the people were opposing the Ottomans. Many Arabs from outside the red areas joined Sharif Hussein’s revolt against the Ottomans. For example, many Iraqis, including future fathers of the nation like Nuri al-Said and Jafar al-Askari, joined the Sharifan armies. Indeed, I am proud to say some of my own ancestors did so.

    5. Ok_Metal_7847 on

      It’s not true because Arabs helped the UK for the fall of Jerusalem in the Great War, Syrian Arabs helped french legions.

      also It’s not important, Arabs celebrate it widely.

      I completely separate the northern Africans by the way. They were always loyal to the empire maybe more than Turks.

    6. KulOrkhun on

      There were also riots in Iraq in 1916 and also Kurdish revolts in Bitlis and Diyarbakir in 1916-1917

    7. CheValierXP on

      Three points:

      1) does it have to be 1916-1918?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqib_al-Ashraf_revolt

      2) The armed revolt was localized in the red area, but many fighters joined them from all around.

      3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seferberlik

      Most of the fighting-age men were conscripted, and if you refused, you would be executed. There was a lack of fighting power, man-made famine by the Ottomans in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria.

      So I’m not really sure what this map implies.

    8. Turbulent-Company373 on

      The Hashemites eventually lost Hejaz with Mecca and Medina in 1925 but gained Trans-Jordan and Iraq in 1921 by helping the British. They later lost Iraq in 1958. In 1948, they gained the old city of Jerusalem and the West Bank becoming Jordan. They lost it in 1967. Was the 1916 revolt a political/nationalist revolt or a religious/sectarian revolt or both?