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Congress of Paris (1856)
Series of diplomatic meetings, 1856, to negotiate peace in the Crimean War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses of "Paris Peace Conference", see Paris Peace Conference (disambiguation).
The Congress of Paris is the name for a series of diplomatic meetings held in 1856 in Paris, France, to negotiate peace between the warring powers in the Crimean War that had started almost three years earlier.[1]
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The Congress was attended by diplomatic representatives from the nations of France, Great Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, as well as from the Ottoman Empire and Piedmont-Sardinia and was presided by the French Prime-Minister Alexandre Colonna-Walewski. The agreement resulted in continued recognition of the Ottoman Empire and the return to pre-war territorial borders for Russia and the Empire.