<P> In May 1917, after the exile of Constantine I of Greece, Greek prime minister Eleuthérios Venizélos returned to Athens and allied with the Entente . Greek military forces (though divided between supporters of the monarchy and supporters of Venizélos) began to take part in military operations against the Bulgarian army on the border . That same year, İzmir was promised to Italy under the Agreement of Saint - Jean - de-Maurienne between France, Italy and the United Kingdom . </P> <P> At the 1918 Paris Peace Conference, based on the wartime promises, Venizélos lobbied hard for an expanded Hellas (the Megali Idea) that would include the large Greek communities in Northern Epirus, Thrace (including Constantinople) and Asia Minor . In 1919, despite Italian opposition, he obtained the permission of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 for Greece to occupy İzmir . </P> <P> The South West Caucasian Republic was an entity established on Russian territory in 1918, after the withdrawal of Ottoman troops to the pre-World War I border as a result of the Armistice of Mudros . It had a nominally independent provisional government headed by Fakhr al - Din Pirioghlu and based in Kars . </P> <P> After fighting broke out between it and both Georgia and Armenia, British High Commissioner Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough - Calthorpe occupied Kars on 19 April 1919, abolishing its parliament and arresting 30 members of its government . He placed Kars province under Armenian rule . </P>

Who drew the boundaries of the new countries created from the end of the ottoman empire