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 frontier in Europe and in Asia (Arts. 45, 58-60); the recommendation of concessions to Greece (Art. 24); the navigation of the Danube (Arts. 52-57); specific engagements of the Porte as to Provincial Government in Europe (Art. 23); engagements of the Porte for the benefit of the Armenians (Art. 61); and general engagements of the Porte as to religious toleration (Art. 62).

The topics now regulated by the Treaties of Paris, of London, and of Berlin, with its Supplementary Conventions, may therefore be classified under seventeen heads, viz. :


 * I. The admission of the Porte to the concert of Europe (Paris, Art. 7).
 * II. The agreement as to a resort to mediation (Paris, 8).
 * III. Religious equality in Turkey (Paris, 9; Berlin, 62).
 * IV. The Navigation of the Straits (Paris, 10; London, 2).
 * V. The Navigation of the Black Sea (Paris, 12 ; London, 3).
 * VI. The Navigation of the Danube (Paris, 15-19; London, 1871, 4-7; Berlin, 52-57; London, 1883).
 * VII. Roumania (Berlin, 43-51).
 * VIII. Servia (Berlin, 34-40, 42).
 * IX. Montenegro (Berlin, 26-31, 33).
 * X. Bulgaria (Berlin, 1-12).
 * XI. Eastern Roumelia (Berlin, 13-21).
 * XII. Bosnia and Herzegovina (Berlin, 25).
 * XIII. Other European provinces (Berlin, 23).
 * XIV. The Armenian provinces (Berlin, 61).
 * XV. Cessions to Greece (Berlin, 24; Convention of 1881).
 * XVI. The Russian boundaries (Berlin, 45, 58-60).
 * XVII. The Persian boundary (Berlin, 60).

Of these topics, I, II, and III need little more explanation than can conveniently be given in the shape of notes to the relative articles of the Treaties. Of some of the others it may be useful to give in this place a more connected, though still summary, account.

IV. —By the Treaty of the Dardanelles, of 5th January, 1809,