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Treaty · 1879
The 1879 Peace of Constantinople reached between the Russian and Ottoman empires was a treaty signed on February 8, 1879 in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey). Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian ambassador to Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and the Ottoman Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexander Karatheodori Pasha, and Ali Pasha, the Minister presiding over the Council of State of the Ottoman Empire, were those present to sign the agreement. It is a direct continuation of the Treaty of San Stefano.
The treaty was translated into English by Coleman Phillipson in Termination of War and Treaties of Peace. The original treaties are in French, Russian and Turkish. Article 1 From now on, there will be peace and friendship between the two empires. Article 2 Both sides declare in agreement that the terms of the Treaty of Berlin, negotiated between the seven Powers, have superseded those articles of the San Stefai Preliminary Treaty which were repealed or amended by the Congress. Article 3 The terms of the Treaty of San Stefano, which were neither repealed nor modified by the Treaty of Berlin, are definitively determined by the following articles of this Treaty.
Took place during the reign of Abdulhamid II (1876–1909). Abdulhamid II
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