London Conference (1832)

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At the London Conference in May 1832 , Great Britain, France and Russia, who on February 3, 1830 had declared the establishment of the state of Greece in the London Protocol and thus decided the Greek struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire , discussed further developments after Ioannis Kapodistrias , the first head of state, murdered in October 1831.

The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston , had invited to the conference . It was agreed to shape the state as an independent kingdom . Its northern border should run on the so-called Arta - Volos line. After the resignation of the Belgian King Leopold I, the crown was offered to the Bavarian Prince Otto von Wittelsbach, regardless of any Greek claims . The condition was that the kingdoms of Greece and Bavaria should not be united .

The Ottoman Empire was compensated for the loss of territory with the sum of 40 million piasters .

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