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Greece itself wanted control of Constantinople. Russia vetoed the Greek proposal, because its own main war goal was to control the Straits, and take control of Constantinople. [3] Though the Allied attempt to seize the area in the Gallipoli Campaign failed, Constantinople was nevertheless occupied by the victorious Allies at the end of the war ...
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2 Both sides declare in agreement that the terms of the Treaty of Berlin, negotiated between the seven Powers, have superseded those articles of the San Stefai Preliminary Treaty which were repealed or amended by the Congress.
The monetary and governmental collapse combined with a new threat from Russia began the final stages of the Empire's collapse. Russia had been forced by the Crimean War to give up its ambitions of conquering the Ottoman capital of Constantinople and taking control of the Bosphorus. Instead it decided to focus on gaining power in the Balkans.
The Moscow scholars explained the fall of Constantinople as the divine punishment for the sin of the Union with the Catholic Church, but they did not want to obey the Patriarch of Constantinople, although there were no unionist patriarchs since the Turkish conquest in 1453 and the first Patriarch since then, Gennadius Scholarius, was the leader ...
Austria-Hungary and Russia would work to ensure that a number of small, sovereign states were created in the Balkan peninsula but not a closed Slavic power bloc that could jeopardize the "European balance" (Europäische Gleichgewicht) Constantinople and the surrounding area would be a "free city" (Freie Stadt) Russia would receive southern ...
The struggle for Constantinople [1] [2] [3] was a complex series of conflicts following the dissolution of the Byzantine Empire in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, fought between the Latin Empire established by the Crusaders, various Byzantine successor states, and foreign powers such as the Second Bulgarian Empire and Sultanate of Rum, for control of Constantinople and supremacy ...
The two envoys were immediately imprisoned once they sat foot in Italy: one was flayed alive and the other managed to escape back to Constantinople. [64] From 1266 to his death in 1282, Michael would repeatedly be threatened by the King of Sicily, Charles of Anjou , who aspired to restore the Latin Empire and periodically enjoyed Papal support ...
Constantinople was built over six years, and consecrated on 11 May 330. [6] [39] Constantine divided the expanded city, like Rome, into 14 regions, and ornamented it with public works worthy of an imperial metropolis. [40] Yet, at first, Constantine's new Rome did not have all the dignities of old Rome.