SAN STEFANO, TREATY OF


Meaning of SAN STEFANO, TREATY OF in English

(1878) Peace settlement imposed on the Ottoman government by Russia at the end of the

It established an independent Bulgarian principality that included most of Macedonia, realigned other European provinces of the Ottoman Empire, and ceded parts of Asian Turkey to Russia. Opposed by Austria-Hungary and Britain, it was modified at the Congress of {{link=Berlin, Congress of">Berlin .

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