Treaty of Jassy

Treaty of Jassy

The region ceded to Russia (striped)
Type	Peace treaty
Signed	9 January 1792
Location	Jassy, Moldavia
Signatories	Russian Empire Ottoman Empire
Languages	Russian, Ottoman Turkish

The Treaty of Jassy, signed at Jassy (Iași) in Moldavia (presently in Romania), was a pact between the Russian and Ottoman Empires ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–92 and confirming Russia's increasing dominance in the Black Sea.^[1]

The treaty was signed on 9 January 1792 by Grand Vizier Koca Yusuf Pasha and Prince Bezborodko (who had succeeded Prince Potemkin as the head of the Russian delegation when Potemkin died). The Treaty of Jassy formally recognized the Russian Empire's annexation of the Crimean Khanate via the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca of 1783^[2] and transferred Yedisan (the territory between Dniester and Bug rivers) to Russia making the Dniester the Russo-Turkish frontier in Europe, and leaving the Asiatic frontier (Kuban River) unchanged.

See also

• List of treaties

References

1. Hitchens, Keith (2012). "Great Powers, Small Powers: Wallachia and Georgia Confront the Eastern Question, 1768-1802". In Ivan Biliarsky; Ovidiu Cristea; Anca Oroveanu. The Balkans and Caucasus: Parallel Processes on the Opposite Sides of the Black Sea. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-4438-3705-7. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
2. "Russia and Turkey signed the Treaty of Jassy". Presidential Library of Russia. 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "^{article name needed}". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.