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The Crimean War[c] was fought from October 1853 to February 1856[4] between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Sardinia-Piedmont. Geopolitical causes of the war included the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the expansion of the Russian Empire in the preceding Russo-Turkish Wars, and the British and French preference to preserve the Ottoman Empire to maintain the balance of power in the Concert of Europe. The flashpoint was a disagreement over the rights of Christian minorities in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, with the French promoting the rights of Roman Catholics, and Russia promoting those of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The churches worked out their differences with the Ottomans and came to an agreement, but both the French Emperor Napoleon III and the Russian Tsar Nicholas I refused to back down. Nicholas issued an ultimatum that demanded the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman Empire be placed under his prote

Crimean War - Wikipedia Jump to content Checked From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is the latest accepted revision , reviewed on 20 July 2026 . Tenth conflict of the Russo-Turkish wars (1853–1856) For other uses, see Crimean War (disambiguation) . (2 years, 5 months and 2 weeks)"},"place":{"wt":"[[Crimea]], [[North Caucasus]], [[Balkans]], [[Black Sea]], [[Baltic Sea]], [[White Sea]], Far East"},"result":{"wt":"Allied victory"},"territory":{"wt":"Russia loses the [[Danube Delta]] and [[Southern Bessarabia]]"},"combatant1":{"wt":"{{flagicon|Ottoman Empire}} [[Ottoman Empire]]<br />{{fla

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