The Armistice of Mudanya was an agreement between Turkey

Turkey

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 (the Grand National Assembly of Turkey

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) on the one hand, and Italy

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, France

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 and Britain

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 on the other hand, signed in the Ottoman town of Mudanya

Mudanya

Mudanya , is a town and district of Bursa Province in the Marmara region of Turkey. It is located on the Gulf of Gemlik, part of the south coast of the Sea of Marmara. As of 1911, it was connected with Bursa by a railway and a carriage road, and with Istanbul by steamers...

 on 11 October 1922.

The Kingdom of Greece

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 acceded to the armistice on 14 October 1922.

Under the terms agreed, Eastern Thrace

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 as far as the Maritsa River (River Meriç) and Adrianople (Edirne

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) were ceded by Greece to Turkey and Turkish sovereignty over Constantinople

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 and the Dardanelles

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 was recognized. The final settlement between the parties was worked out at the Treaty of Lausanne

Treaty of Lausanne

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 from 21 November 1922 to 24 February 1923 and from 23 April to 24 July 1923.

Sources

• International Treaties of the Twentieth Century, London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-14125-7.
• Atatürk by Andrew Mango
  Andrew Mango
  Andrew James Alexander Mango Andrew James Alexander Mango Andrew James Alexander Mango (born 1926 in Istanbul (Constantinople) is a British author who was born in Turkey as one of three sons of a prosperous Anglo-Russian family. He is the brother of the distinguished Oxford historian and...
  
  (ISBN 0-7195-6592-8).