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Home > Library > History, Politics & Society > British HistoryBerlin, Congress of, 1878. A summit conference under the presidency of Bismarck, in June 1878. Lord Salisbury and Lord Beaconsfield (Benjamin Disraeli) represented Britain. European opinion was uneasy at the gains Russia had made by the treaty of San Stefano at the end of the Russo-Turkish War. San Stefano had provided for a ‘Big Bulgaria’, an autonomous principality including half the Balkan peninsula, which Seemed likely to be under Russian influence. This was divided and part returned to Turkish jurisdiction. Austria was to ‘occupy and administer’ Bosnia and Herzegovina. Britain was to lease Cyprus from Turkey. Disraeli returned to London boasting that he had secured ‘peace with honour’ but Salisbury later concluded that they had ‘backed the wrong horse’ in trying to prop up the Turkish empire.
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