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.
The treaty was signed on 9 January 1792 by
Grand Vizier
Grand vizier ( fa, وزيرِ اعظم, vazîr-i aʾzam; ota, صدر اعظم, sadr-ı aʾzam; tr, sadrazam) was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. The office of Grand Vizier was first ...
Koca Yusuf Pasha
Koca Yusuf Pasha was an Ottoman statesman. He was grand vizier from 25 January 1786 to 28 May 1789 (during reign of Abdul Hamid I), and Kapudan Pasha (Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy) after 19 December 1789.İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, ''Osmanl ...
and
Prince Bezborodko
Prince Alexander Andreyevich Bezborodko (russian: Князь Алекса́ндр Андре́евич Безборо́дко; 6 April 1799) was the Grand Chancellor of Russian Empire and chief architect of Catherine the Great's foreign policy afte ...
(who had succeeded
Prince Potemkin
Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski (, also , ;, rus, Князь Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Потёмкин-Таври́ческий, Knjaz' Grigórij Aleksándrovich Potjómkin-Tavrícheskij, ɡrʲɪˈɡ ...
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 1774 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
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List of treaties
References
{{Ottoman treaties
1790s in the Russian Empire
1792 in the Ottoman Empire
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Crimean Khanate
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