The Great Powers, besides cutting down to…

1876 CE to 1887 CE

The Great Powers, besides cutting down to size the “Big Bulgaria” that had arisen from the great Middle Eastern crisis of 1875–78, press the Ottoman government to cede the rich agricultural province of Thessaly and a part of Epirus to Greece.

The second extension of the territory of the independent Greek state thus comes about in 1881, like the first—the cession of the Ionian Islands in 1862—because of mediation by the Great Powers rather than of armed conflict.

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