📅 On This Day in Military History

October 30

1 event across history

⚔️📍 Mudros, Aegean Sea1918

Armistice of Mudros — Ottoman Empire Surrenders in WWI

The Ottoman Empire signed the Armistice of Mudros aboard HMS Agamemnon, ending its participation in WWI. Allied forces would occupy Constantinople and partition the empire over the following years.

The Mudros armistice ended 600 years of Ottoman power and began the process that created modern Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Outcome

Ottoman Empire ends; Turkey created from its remnants