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- Title
La genèse de la frontière sur le Prout.
- Authors
GOŞU, ARMAND
- Abstract
The author analyses the evolution of the peace negotiations between autumn 1811 and spring 1812, based on documents from Russian and Turkish archives. Due to several spectacular tactical operations, the Ottoman army was surrounded by the Russian troops led by Mikhail Koutouzov, and the Grand Vizier was forced to accept peace negotiations, without the Sultan's approval, which led to the boundary being fixed on the river Siret, which would have involved the annexation of the greater part of the principality of Moldavia by Russia. Despite the fact that the peace negotiations that had begun in Giurgiu had been conditioned upon the border on the Siret, the Sultan requested that the border be established on the river Prut, while also keeping Kilia and Akkerman, i.e. the northern mouth of the Danube, within the confines of the Ottoman Empire. The peace negotiations that subsequently continued in Bucharest, the capital of Wallachia, were halted at the beginning of 1812 and fighting resumed. Under the pressure of the French invasion and due to the diplomatic intervention of Great Britain and Sweden, Tsar Alexander I agreed to annex only half of Moldavia, with the future boundary being fixed on the Prut and on the Kilia arm of the Danube.
- Subjects
RUSSIA; INTERNATIONAL mediation; REIGN of Alexander I, Russia, 1801-1825; FOREIGN relations of Turkey -- 1288-1918; OTTOMAN Empire; KOUTOUZOV, Mikhail; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Transylvanian Review, 2013, Vol 21, p201
- ISSN
1221-1249
- Publication type
Article