Treaty of Sistova

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Leopold II
Selim III
The treaty was signed in the little house to the left in modern Svishtov, Bulgaria

The Treaty of Sistova ended the

last Austro-Turkish war (1787–91). Brokered by Great Britain, Prussia and the Netherlands,[1] it was signed in Sistova (modern Svishtov) in Bulgaria on 4 August 1791.[2] The treaty was written in French and Turkish.[1]

Background

The

Lapac, Srb)[4] on the Croatian frontier were ceded to the Habsburg Monarchy.[5]

This treaty ended the

Egypt. The two countries would end up teaming against the Allies of World War I, with the Ottomans sending troops to Galicia and the Austro-Hungarians to Gaza
before collapsing together.

With the Turkish war ended, Austria joined with Prussia in the Declaration of Pillnitz on 27 August. Austria renounced any expansion at the expense of the Ottoman Empire. In return, Prussia promised not to expand to the east and not to support the Brabant Revolution. Both countries pledged to intervene in France if all of the various powers of Europe agreed that it was necessary.

See also

  • Habsburg-occupied Serbia (1788–92)

References

  1. ^ a b The Peace Treaties of the Ottoman Empire, Karl-Heinz Ziegler, 'Peace Treaties and International Law in European History: From the Late Middle Ages to World War One, ed. Randall Lesaffer, (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 358.
  2. ^ Jeremy Black, British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolutions, 1783–1793, (Cambridge University Press, 1994), 263.
  3. ^ Virginia Aksan, Ottoman Wars: An Empire Besieged, (Taylor & Francis, 2007), 138.
  4. ^ "Svištovski mir" (in Croatian). Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, Zagreb.
  5. ^ Charles W. Ingrao, The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618–1815, (Cambridge University Press, 2000), 210.
  6. Macmillan & Company
    . p. 334.

Further reading
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