akritas
12-14-2005, 05:08 PM
In January 1824 Russia memorialized to the Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire for the settlement of the Greek cause. According to this memorial which is known as the three-part plan, three autonomous Greek states under the regime of principality would be created.
These small states would pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire which would maintain some guards but with restricted authorities.
The territory of one of the principalities would comprise Thessaly and east-central Greece, the second would be composed of Epirus and west-central Greece while a third one of the Peloponnese and Crete. Finally, the Russian memorial referred to the expansion of the communal administration of the Aegean islands.
The suggested regulation referred to the legal regime of the Danubian principalities (Moldavia and Walachia), which allowed Russian intervention thus provoking tension in its relations with the Ottoman Empire.
Thus, despite the fact that the other Powers did not reject the plan they did not contribute to its promulgation. Nonetheless, the Russian memorial referred for the first time to the perspective of the creation of independent Greek states while it also the Great Powers for the settlement of the Greek cause which finally occurred after three and a half years at Navarino.
Two and a half years after the Russian memorial, in the middle of April 1826, the Greek question seemed to be stagnant in diplomacy. Conversely, the situation in the fields of battle was quite different. Ibrahim controlled a great part of the Peloponnese while he contributed decisively to the fall of Missolonghi which meant the complete control of west-central Greece by the Ottomans. Despite the apparent diplomatic stagnation Russia and Great Britain had decided, each country for its own reasons, to take action. Their action resulted in the signing of the Protocol of St. Petersburg on the 4th April 1826.
This protocol confirmed the intention of the two Powers to intervene between the Greek side and the Ottoman Empire in the direction of the creation of an independent Greek state. The protocol was notified after several months in France, Austria and Prussia which were invited to participate in a conference for concluding to final decisions. This procedure which gave a trial to the cohesion of the Holy Alliance was accepted only by France.
In the summer of the next year and despite the fact that the Greek Revolution had virtually been restricted to certain regions of the Peloponnese and the islands of the Argo-Saronic gulf after the fall of the Acropole, France sided with Russia and Great Britain creating a new power combination in the field of European diplomacy. The result of this evolution was the signing of the Treaty of London on July 6th 1827. The terms of this treaty which included the same vagueness with those of the Protocol of St. Petersburg defined that the three Powers were obliged to use even military force in order to make the two opposite sides conclude a truce and begin negotiations. This was the so-called secret supplementary article which legalized the sinking of the Egyptian fleet at Navarino by the fleet of the three allies a few months later in the beginning of October 1827.
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These small states would pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire which would maintain some guards but with restricted authorities.
The territory of one of the principalities would comprise Thessaly and east-central Greece, the second would be composed of Epirus and west-central Greece while a third one of the Peloponnese and Crete. Finally, the Russian memorial referred to the expansion of the communal administration of the Aegean islands.
The suggested regulation referred to the legal regime of the Danubian principalities (Moldavia and Walachia), which allowed Russian intervention thus provoking tension in its relations with the Ottoman Empire.
Thus, despite the fact that the other Powers did not reject the plan they did not contribute to its promulgation. Nonetheless, the Russian memorial referred for the first time to the perspective of the creation of independent Greek states while it also the Great Powers for the settlement of the Greek cause which finally occurred after three and a half years at Navarino.
Two and a half years after the Russian memorial, in the middle of April 1826, the Greek question seemed to be stagnant in diplomacy. Conversely, the situation in the fields of battle was quite different. Ibrahim controlled a great part of the Peloponnese while he contributed decisively to the fall of Missolonghi which meant the complete control of west-central Greece by the Ottomans. Despite the apparent diplomatic stagnation Russia and Great Britain had decided, each country for its own reasons, to take action. Their action resulted in the signing of the Protocol of St. Petersburg on the 4th April 1826.
This protocol confirmed the intention of the two Powers to intervene between the Greek side and the Ottoman Empire in the direction of the creation of an independent Greek state. The protocol was notified after several months in France, Austria and Prussia which were invited to participate in a conference for concluding to final decisions. This procedure which gave a trial to the cohesion of the Holy Alliance was accepted only by France.
In the summer of the next year and despite the fact that the Greek Revolution had virtually been restricted to certain regions of the Peloponnese and the islands of the Argo-Saronic gulf after the fall of the Acropole, France sided with Russia and Great Britain creating a new power combination in the field of European diplomacy. The result of this evolution was the signing of the Treaty of London on July 6th 1827. The terms of this treaty which included the same vagueness with those of the Protocol of St. Petersburg defined that the three Powers were obliged to use even military force in order to make the two opposite sides conclude a truce and begin negotiations. This was the so-called secret supplementary article which legalized the sinking of the Egyptian fleet at Navarino by the fleet of the three allies a few months later in the beginning of October 1827.
source:
www.ime.gr (http://www.ime.gr)
PS. Nitkov is all yours :read: