Post by rod222 on Sept 8, 2013 3:50:57 GMT
Dead Country Stamps
Ile Rouad (Today Arwad)
Arwad was a strategic island in World War 1. Ile Rouad was the was the first point of French occupation in the Middle East, as on 1 Sept. 1915, the island was taken by the French Navy cruiser Jeanne d’Arc. Originally Arwad was occupied in order to materially support the Maronite Christians who were being oppressed by the Turks in Lebanon, and as an intelligence center. (There had been massacres of Christians in the Ottoman Empire in May 1915 and then there was a severe famine in Lebanon due to the war.)
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Map: Courtesy of "The Stamp Atlas"
Ile Rouad (Today Arwad)
Arwad was a strategic island in World War 1. Ile Rouad was the was the first point of French occupation in the Middle East, as on 1 Sept. 1915, the island was taken by the French Navy cruiser Jeanne d’Arc. Originally Arwad was occupied in order to materially support the Maronite Christians who were being oppressed by the Turks in Lebanon, and as an intelligence center. (There had been massacres of Christians in the Ottoman Empire in May 1915 and then there was a severe famine in Lebanon due to the war.)
www.dcstamps.com/?p=11
Map: Courtesy of "The Stamp Atlas"
