!!!Krimkrieg

Crimean War, 1853-1856, fought between Russia and an alliance of 
Turkey, France, England, and Sardinia (from 1855). Austria remained 
officially neutral, but forced the Russians to withdraw from the 
Balkans by stationing an army at the Russian border, occupied Romania 
(the so-called "Donaufuerstentuemer" or "Danube 
principalities") in September of 1854, and mediated in the 
negotiation of the Treaty of Paris peace settlement of March 30, 
1856, which required considerable concessions on Russia's part. 
Domestically, Emperor Franz Joseph's stance in the Crimean War 
severely undermined his policy of  Neo-absolutism, in foreign affairs 
it led to isolation which facilitated the second  Sardinian War and 
created a basis of enmity between Austria and Russia, which in turn 
contributed to the outbreak of the First World War.

!Literature
B. Unckel, Oesterreich und der Krimkrieg, 1969.


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