Maintaining the status quo in European Great…
1816 CE to 1827 CE
Maintaining the status quo in European Great Power politics had become the first priority after the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815.
In such an atmosphere, the attention of the Great Powers (primarily France and Britain) can be drawn most quickly by situations that disrupt their common economic interests.
The involvement of Egypt in the war is a turning point because Egyptian control of the Peloponnesus is unacceptable to the French and British.
Therefore, with the Balkan conflagration close to extinction, the powers of Western Europe intervene.
An internal crisis compels the Ottoman sultan to accede to Russia's demand for greater influence in the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia.
Groups
Bulgarians (South Slavs)
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Romanians
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Bulgaria, Ottoman
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Ottoman Empire
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Turkish people
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Greece, Ottoman
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Greeks (Modern)
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Moldavia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
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Wallachia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of
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Russian Empire
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British North America
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Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
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Egypt, (Ottoman) Viceroyalty of
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France, constitutional monarchy of
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