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Treaty of San Stefano

Russia-Turkey [1878]
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Date:
March 3, 1878
Participants:
Ottoman Empire
Russia
Context:
Russo-Turkish wars
Key People:
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich, Prince Gorchakov
Nikolay Pavlovich, Count Ignatyev
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Treaty of San Stefano, (March 3 [February 19, Old Style], 1878), peace settlement imposed on the Ottoman government by Russia at the conclusion of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. It provided for a new disposition of the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire that would have ended any effective Turkish control over the Balkans if its provisions had not later been modified. The treaty’s most important provision established an independent Bulgarian principality, which included most of Macedonia and extended to the Danube and from the Aegean to the Black Sea. The independence of Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania was recognized. The ...(100 of 220 words)

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