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Mosul

Mosul was a province of the former Ottoman empire. Mosul belonged to Iraq however, Turkey felt that the province was part of its historic heartland. The League sent Belgian, Hungarian and Swedish members in 1924, and found that the people of Mosul did not want to be a part of either Turkey or Iraq, but if they had to choose, they would pick Iraq. In 1925, the League recommended that the region would stay a part of Iraq, under the condition that the British hold the mandate over Iraq for another 25 years. On 16 December 1925, the League decided that Mosul would be a part of Iraq.