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  • Crimean Peninsula, Caucasus, Balkans, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, White Sea, Far East
    Sunday Oct 16, 1853
    Unification of Germany

    Crimean War

    Crimean Peninsula, Caucasus, Balkans, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, White Sea, Far East
    Sunday Oct 16, 1853

    The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance of France, the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia.




  • Ottoman Empire
    Oct, 1853
    Ottoman Empire

    Foreign Loans

    Ottoman Empire
    Oct, 1853

    The Crimean War (1853–1856) was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. The financial burden of the war led the Ottoman state to issue foreign loans amounting to 5 million pounds sterling on 4 August 1854.




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