Introduction
A series of clashes between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, which took place during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as Russia gained control of the northern coast of the Black Sea and expanded its area of influence in the Balkans.
In the first of these clashes (1677-1681) Russia conquered the Ukraine region. Tsar Peter I the Great restarted the fight and conquered the fortress of Azov in two campaigns (1695-1696), but it would be recovered, by the Turks, by the Treaty of Prut (1711). Russia returned to fight against the Turks, in alliance with Austria, in 1736, until the signing of the Treaty of Belgrade (1739).
The Russian conquests from 1768 to 1812
In the reign of Catherine II, Russia annexed, in 1783, the province of Crimea and the Turks started a new war (1787-1791), being again defeated and losing Bessarabia. Russia now controlled the entire northern coast of the Black Sea, from the Prut River to the Kuban.
The invention of European powers
In the following period, the Russian objective was to increase political influence in the Balkans and control the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits. But these claims faced opposition from the other European powers, especially Great Britain and Austria.
The crisis that led to the Greek War of Independence spurred Russia to start a new war against Turkey (1828-1829). Under the Treaty of Adrianople, Russia would receive territories at the mouth of the Danube and the Caucasus and the right to establish a protectorate over Moldavia and Wallachia.
Subsequently, the Russians occupied the Dardanelles to protect the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet Ali from the attack of the Egyptian pasha Mahmet Ali, until the signing of the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi (1833) proposed the establishment of a Russian protectorate over the entire Ottoman Empire.
Although the European powers managed to impose general supervision of Europe in the Convention of the Straits (1841), Tsar Nicholas I provoked the Crimean War (1853-1856), in which the Russians had to face a coalition formed by Great Britain, France, Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire. According to the Treaty of Paris, the Russian Empire would lose its possessions at the mouth of the Danube and the protectorate over Moldavia and Wallachia.
The War of 1877-1878
Between 1875 and 1876, the Serbs, Montenegrins and Romanians rebelled against the Ottoman Empire. Tsar Alexander II, in 1877, entered the war against the Ottomans and the Treaty of San Stefano granted Russia a large territory in the Caucasus, Dobruja and the Danube Delta region.
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