Treaty of Constantinople (1724)

Treaty of Constantinople (1724)

The Treaty of Constantinople, [cite book |title=Slavonic Europe - A Political History of Poland from 1447 to 1796 |last=Bain |first=R. Nisbet |year=2006 |publisher=READ BOOKS |isbn=1846645816 |pages=p. 323 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PdZBZcUbSewC&pg=PA323&dq=%2B1724+%2B%22treaty+of+constantinople%22&as_brr=3&sig=GaIILut0CK9aTLKgiWYZHX8Fl8g ] Russo-Ottoman Treaty [cite book |title=Iran Under the Safavids |last=Savory |first=Roger |year=1980 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0521042518 |pages=p. 252 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=v4Yr4foWFFgC&pg=PA252&dq=%2B1724+%2Btreaty+%2Bottoman+%2Brussia&as_brr=3&sig=_beplI2bS1KPNEWnk1nvQRMZxPQ ] or Treaty of the Partition of Persiacite book |title=Uralic And Altaic Series |last=Martin |first=Samuel Elmo |year=1997 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0700703802 |pages=p. 47 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UWYdLuA34OQC&pg=PA49&dq=%2B1724+%2Btreaty+%2Bottoman+%2Brussia&as_brr=3&sig=RCQz1SyXQfwl3QxvSpHrsomBKqI#PPA47,M1 ] was a 1724 treaty between the Ottoman empire and Russia, dividing large portions of the territory of Persia between them.

The Russians and the Ottomans were engaged in a race to occupy more Iranian territories and were about to engage in a war over the occupation of Gandjeh when France intervened. [cite book |title=The Cambridge History of Iran |last=Fisher |first=William Bayne |year=1968 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0521200954 |pages=p. 320 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=H20Xt157iYUC&pg=PA322&dq=%2B1724+%2Btreaty+%2Bottoman+%2Brussia&as_brr=3&sig=30fbi1zn1zb5ifv_BF2JBguzFUg#PPA320,M1 ] With France as intermediary, the two governments signed a treaty in Constantinople on June 12 1724, [cite book |title=E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936 |last=Houtsma |first=M. Th. |coauthors=van Donzel, E. |year=1993 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=9004082654 |pages=p. 760 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ro--tXw_hxMC&pg=PA760&dq=%2B1724+%2Btreaty+%2Bottoman+%2Brussia&as_brr=3&sig=orLtpRFya8SvSAgXc8p3NsxFhqM ] dividing a large portion of Persia between them. Thus, the lands located on the east of the conjunction of the rivers Kurosh (Kur) and Aras were given to the Russians and the lands on the west went to the Ottomans.

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