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Arab Revolt

Lawrence of Arabia after the Battle of Aqaba.
Military Conflict
ConflictArabia and Southern Arabia Campaigns
DateJune 1916 � October 1918
LocationSaudi Arabia, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon
ResultTreaty of Sèvres
Territorial
changes
Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire
Arab Revolt Hashemite Arabs
United Kingdom United Kingdom

Saudi Arabia Sultanate of Nejd (Unification of Saudi Arabia)
Ottoman Empire
Arab Revolt Faisal
United Kingdom Edmund Allenby
United Kingdom T. E. Lawrence
Ottoman Empire Djemal Pasha
Ottoman Empire Fahreddin Pasha
Ottoman Empire Muhiddin Pasha
30,000 (June 1916)
23,000

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The Arab Revolt (1916 � 1918) ( Al-Thawra al-`Arabiyya) ( ) was initiated by the Sherif Hussein bin Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen.


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