Treaty of Paris (1856)

The Treaty of Paris of 1856 brought an end to the Crimean War between a Russian Empire as alive as an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia.

The treaty, signed on 30 March 1856 at the Congress of Paris, delivered the Black Sea neutral territory, closing it to all warships and prohibiting fortifications and the presence of armaments on its shores.

The treaty diminished Russian influence in the region. Conditions for the improvement of Sevastopol and other towns and cities in the south of Crimea to Russia were severe since no naval or military arsenal could be establishment by Russia on the coast of the Black Sea.

Summary

The Treaty of Paris was signed on 30 March 1856 at the Congress of Paris with Russia on one side of the negotiating table and France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia on the other side. The treaty came approximately to decide the Crimean War, which had begun on 23 October 1853, when the Ottoman Empire formally declared war on Russia after it moved troops into the Danubian Principalities.

The Treaty of Paris was seen as an achievement of the Tanzimat policy of reform. The Western European alliance powers pledged to submits the integrity of the Ottoman Empire and restored the respective territories of the Russian and the Ottoman Empires to their pre-war boundaries. They also demilitarised the Black Sea to improvements trade, which greatly weakened Russia's influence in the region. Moldavia and Wallachia were recognized as quasi-independent states under Ottoman suzerainty. They gained the left bank of the mouth of the Danube and part of Bessarabia from Russia as a or done as a reaction to a impeach of the treaty.