Pact of Halepa

Balkan history
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Also known as: Pact of Khalépa, Treaty of Halepa, Treaty of Khalépa
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Also called:
Treaty of Halepa
Halepa also spelled:
Khalépa
Date:
October 1878
Participants:
Ottoman Empire

Pact of Halepa, convention signed in October 1878 at Khalépa, a suburb of Canea, by which the Turkish sultan Abdülhamid II (ruled 1876–1909) granted a large degree of self-government to Greeks in Crete as a means to quell their insurrection against Turkish overlords. It supplemented previous concessions to the Cretans—e.g., the Organic Law Constitution (1868) and the Cyprus Convention (July 4, 1878), which had been consummated as part of the Treaty of Berlin after the Russian defeat of the Turks in 1878. Specifically, the Halepa treaty broadened the rights of Christians in Crete by granting them preference for official posts ...(100 of 180 words)