TRENDEAtlas of the Sultans · Wars, battles and treaties
Treaty · 1871
Treaty of London (1871) was an international treaty signed on 13 March 1871 by Germany, Austria, the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and Italy. It reversed most limitations imposed on the Russian military presence in the Black Sea that came following the settlement of the Crimean War, by virtue of the 1856 Treaty of Paris. Capitalizing on Prussia's assured and impending victory over France in the Franco-Prussian war (19 July 1870 – 28 January 1871) and instigated by Count Bismarck, who sought to secure Russian neutrality, on 31 October 1870 Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire Alexander Gorchakov denounced the Black Sea clauses of the 1856 Treaty of Paris.
Took place during the reign of Abdulaziz (1861–1876). Abdulaziz
The atlas records this territorial change for the year:
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