Eastern Question(s)

I. Suleiman the Magnificent

II. Great Power interests

Crumbling Ottoman Empire

I. Austrian fear of Russia

II. French commercial interests

III. British defense-of-India interests

IV. Russian security interests

Greek Revolt

I. Hetairia Philiké and Alexander Ypsilanti

II. European popular opinion

III. European leadership opinion

IV. Russian claims from Kuchuk-Kainardji

V. Nicholas I

VI. Egyptian intervention

A. Mehemet Ali and Ibrahim Pasha

VII. St. Petersburg Protocol, 4 Apr 1826

VIII. Convention of Akkerman

A. Straits clause

IX. Treaty of London 6 Jul 1827

X. Allied Naval Blockade

A. Battle of Navarino, 20 Oct 1827