Berlin Conference 1880

The Berlin Conference is the conference on the settlement of the Ottoman-Greek border, held from June 16 to July 1, 1880, at which European representatives took part.

After the negotiations between Greece and the Ottoman Empire about the cession of Ottoman territory with a predominantly Greek population, such as Thessaly , Epirus and Crete , were unsuccessful, Greece turned to the protecting powers Russia , Great Britain and France in a circular on March 21, 1879 .

On June 16, 1880, at the suggestion of England, the Berlin Conference was opened at the Foreign Office in Berlin .

course

Prince Hohenlohe was elected chairman of the conference and Colonel Blume chairman of the military commission that met separately. Plenipotentiaries from Greece and the Ottoman Empire were not admitted to the conference. This led the Porte to declare that it would not consider the decisions of the conference to be binding on it. France made a proposal for a new frontier stretching from the mouth of the Maurolongos River to that of the Kalamas River . This proposal was accepted by the plenipotentiaries. The final act was signed on July 1st, after a collective note to the Ottoman and Greek governments had been agreed.

The decisions of the conference were accepted by Greece but rejected by the Porte. This conflict could not be resolved until 1881.

Attendees

blue: participants of the conference
red: Ottoman Empire
orange: Greece

Attendees	Sent persons
German Empire	Prince Clovis zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst Colonel Wilhelm von Blume
Austria-Hungary	Count Joszef Széchenyi Consul General von Zwiedinek Colonel Baron Isidor von Ripp
France	Comte de Saint-Vallier Colonel Perier
United Kingdom	Lord Odo Russell Sir John Lintorn Simmons
Russia	Ambassador Pyotr Alexandrovich Saburov Colonel Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov
Kingdom of Italy	Marquis Edoardo de Launay , Ambassador to Berlin General Sironi

literature

• Piotr S. Wandycz: The Great Powers and East Central Europe from the Berlin Congress to the Fall of the Berlin Wall (1878-1989) . Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-86583-178-1

See also

• History of Greece
• History of the Republic of Turkey
• Berlin Congress