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 | | The RussoTurkish War of 187778 followed, concluded by the treaty of San Stefano, the terms of which were modified in Turkeys favor by the congress of Berlin (1878), which marks the beginning of the later phase of the Eastern Question. |
 | | The belief in the imminent collapse of the Ottoman dominion was weakened almost to extinction; so was the belief, which inspired the treaty of 1856, in the capacity of Turkey to reform and develop itself on European lines. |
 | | The Eastern Question, however, slumbered until, in 1851, the matter of the Holy Places was raised by Napoleon III., involving the whole question of the influence in Ottoman affairs of France under the capitulations of 1740 and of Russia under the treaty of 1774. |
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