Event anniversary

Congress of Berlin

Took place on June 13, 1878

148

Years ago

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The 149th anniversary falls on June 13, 2027, in 232 days.

At the Congress of Berlin (13 June – 13 July 1878), the major European powers revised the territorial and political terms imposed by the Russian Empire on the Ottoman Empire by the Treaty of San Stefano (March 1878), which had ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878.

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