Budapest Convention 1877

When

15 Jan 1877

Kind

Treaty

Coordinates

47.50° N, 19.04° E

Description

secret agreement between Austria-Hungary and Russia in 1877

The Budapest Convention was a secret agreement between Austria-Hungary and Russia in 1877 to agree on policies and the division of powers in Southeast Europe in the eventuality of war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The so-called Eastern Question, the division of the declining Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, was a priority of the European great powers in the nineteenth century.

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