BRITAIN AND OTTOMAN EMPIRE DURING THE WAR OF THE QUADRUPLE ALLIANCE (1718–1720)
BRITAIN AND OTTOMAN EMPIRE DURING THE WAR OF THE QUADRUPLE ALLIANCE (1718–1720)

Summary/Abstract: The study focuses on relations between Britain and Ottoman Empire after the Utrecht and Rastatt treaties 1713-1714, as the outcome of the War of the Spanish Succession provided Britain with a more significant presence in the Mediterranean. The Ottoman Empire was significantly weakened after 1718 Passarowitz peace agreement. British politics in the Ottoman Empire had to take into account increasingly complex relations with Russia, Austria, and in the Eastern Mediterranean. Britain paid particular attention to the Austrian takeover of Naples and Sicily, and new Spanish ambitions in Italy. It turned out that the peace treaties of 1713, 1714 and 1718 did not provide lasting peace and definitive divisions of territories. The War of the Quadruple Alliance 1718–1720 began by Spanish attempts to recover territorial losses, and both Britain and Ottoman empire were interested in the events in Sicily, considered as one of the Mediterranean strategic points. The complex European relations that had been reflected during the war made mutually interdependent a vast space connecting the eastern Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the Baltic and the Black Sea. The study is based on unpublished British papers.

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