Treaty of Niš (1739)

This article is about the 1739 treaty. For other topic, see Treaty of Niš.

The Treaty of Niš was a peace treaty signed on 3 October 1739 in Niš (East Serbia), by the Ottoman Empire and Russian Empire. The Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739 was the result of the Russian effort to gain Azov and Crimea as a first step towards dominating the Black Sea. The Habsburg Monarchy entered the war in 1737 on the Russian side, but was forced to make peace with Ottomans at the separate Treaty of Belgrade, surrendering Northern Serbia, Northern Bosnia and Oltenia, and allowing the Ottomans to resist the Russian push toward Constantinople. In return, the Sultan acknowledged the Habsburg Emperor as the official protector of all Ottoman Christian subjects (see Ottoman millet), a position also claimed by Russia. The Austrian peace treaty compelled Russia to accept peace at Niš', forcing them to give up their claim to Crimea and Moldavia, but allowing them to build a port at Azov, though without fortifications and without the right to have a fleet in the Black Sea.

See also

• List of treaties
• List of treaties of the Ottoman Empire

References

• This article incorporates material from the public domain 1906 Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.