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  1. In history, a territory whose administration
  2. was entrusted to Allied states by the League
  3. of Nations under the Treaty of Versailles
  4. after World War I. Mandated territories were
  5. former German and Turkish possessions
  6. (including Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and
  7. Palestine). When the United Nations replaced
  8. the League of Nations in 1945, mandates that
  9. had not achieved independence became known as
  10. trust territories. In general, mandate means
  11. any official command; in politics also the
  12. right (given by the electors) of an elected
  13. government to carry out its programme of
  14. policies.
  15.