Britain and other European powers had been…
1876 CE to 1887 CE
Britain and other European powers had been faced in the mid- 1870s with preventing Russian expansion into areas controlled by a weakening Ottoman Empire.
Russia was trying to fill the power vacuum by expanding the tsar's empire west and south toward the warm-water port of Constantinople and the Dardanelles.
British administration of Cyprus is intended to forestall such an expansion.
In June 1878, clandestine negotiations between Britain and the Porte culminate in the Cyprus Convention, by which "His Imperial Majesty the Sultan further consents to assign the island of Cyprus to be occupied and administered by England."
Groups
Regions
