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The Allied occupation of Constantinople was the first time the city had been conquered in five centuries. With it, the Allies demanded a partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. The Allies subdivided the lands of modern-day Persia, Israel, and the Arabian Desert into nations too small to survive, but easy to control. Their goal, after a millennium of off and on war with the Arab world, was to end their power to threaten the West forever. They failed.
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