Question

What was the Treaty of Constantinople of 1832?

Answer 1

Hint: The withdrawal of Leopold as a candidate for the Greek throne and the French Revolution in July postponed the formal determination of the new kingdom's borders until a new government was constituted in London. The Arta-Volos borderline was agreed to by Lord Palmerston, who took over as British Foreign Secretary.

Complete answer:
The Constantinople Conference, which took place in February 1832, resulted in the Treaty of Constantinople. It was fought between the Great Powers, which included Britain, Russia, and France, and the Ottoman Empire, on one side. The treaty's most important clause was that it recognised Greece as a sovereign nation. Leopold renounced his claim to the crown of Greece.

Greece was defined as an independent kingdom, with the Arta-Volos line as its northern border, under the agreement signed on 7 May 1832 between Bavaria and the protecting Powers, which primarily dealt with the way the Regency was to be handled until Otto achieved his majority. For the loss of the region, the Ottoman Empire was compensated in the amount of 40,000,000 piastres.

The Great Powers ratified the terms of the Constantinople Arrangement in connection with the border between Greece and the Ottoman Empire in the London Protocol of 30 August 1832, which marked the end of the Greek War of Independence and established modern Greece as an independent state free of the Ottoman Empire.

Note: The unwillingness of Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to take the Greek throne was one of the elements that influenced the settlement. He was dissatisfied with the Aspropotamos–Spercheios line, which had supplanted the more favourable Arta–Volos line that the Great Powers had examined previously.