The Treaty of Berlin was signed on 13 July 1878, in the aftermath of Russia's victory over the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 to 1878. The major European powers used it to restructure the map of the Balkans, reversing some of the extreme territorial gains Russia had claimed in the preliminary Treaty of San Stefano while leaving the Ottoman Empire stripped of most of its European holdings. It was the final act of the Congress of Berlin, attended by the United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the Ottoman Empire, with German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck serving as its chairman and dominant personality.
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What did the Treaty of Berlin of 1878 settle and what did it leave behind?
It gave the Balkans a tenuous peace of thirty-four years but left Serbian and Russian nationalists seething.
The treaty came out of the Congress of Berlin, a gathering of the great European powers held between 13 June and 13 July 1878 to settle Balkan and Near Eastern problems that followed the war between Russia and Turkey in 1877. The treaty was signed by Britain, France and Germany, as well as Russia, Turkey and Austria-Hungary. It achieved a tenuous Balkan peace lasting thirty-four years, but it left Serbian and Russian nationalists seething.
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The Treaty of Berlin (formally the Treaty between Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain and Ireland, Italy, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire for the Settlement of Affairs in the East) was signed on 13 July 1878.
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signed on 13 July 1878
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Berlin, German Empire
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Gladstone, William Ewart (1878).
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The Treaty of Berlin (formally the Treaty between Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain and Ireland, Italy, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire for the Settlement of Affairs in the East) was signed on 13 July 1878.
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