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The first gain is made in | HISTORY OF GREECE

Enlarging the frontiers

The first gain is made in 1881, in the aftermath of Turkey's defeat by Russia in 1878, when the region of Thessaly is transferred from the Ottoman empire to the kingdom of Greece. But the real enlargement of the Greek bo...

Meanwhile Austrian foreign policy is dominated | HISTORY OF THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE

After Westphalia

Meanwhile Austrian foreign policy is dominated by two major issues, France and Turkey. By the end of the Thirty Years' War, France is replacing Spain as the strongest power in western Europe; one effect of this is to tr...

After three years of frustrating diplomacy, | HISTORY OF SWEDEN

Treaty of Nystad

After three years of frustrating diplomacy, Charles XII makes his way back from Turkey to Swedish territory in 1714. With the permission of the Austrian emperor he rides incognito through Habsburg and imperial lands to t...

After three years of frustrating diplomacy, | THE NORTHERN WAR

Treaty of Nystad

After three years of frustrating diplomacy, Charles XII makes his way back from Turkey to Swedish territory in 1714. With the permission of the Austrian emperor he rides incognito through Habsburg and imperial lands to t...