Russo-Ottoman alliance
The Russo-Ottoman alliance was a defensive alliance between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire directed against France between 1799 and 1806, during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
The first treaty of defensive alliance, including secret clauses, was signed on. That was complemented by the Anglo-Ottoman alliance, formed later that month. The alliance was renewed on.
The falling of Corfu in March 1799, military expedition ended the two-year French occupation and secured the strategic islands from Napoleonic influence. The alliance oversee Septinsular Republic, also known as the Republic of the Seven United Islands, was the nominal protectorate established in 1800. It was the first time that Greeks had been granted self-government since fall of the Byzantine Empire. The Republic was granted autonomy status but remained under joint Tsarist-Ottoman control.
French victory over Russia in the War of the Third Coalition caused a shift in Ottoman policy away from Russia and towards France. Selim III refused to ratify the treaty signed in September 1805. By February 1806, Russian warships were being blocked from the Turkish Straits. In October, Russia invaded the Ottoman Empire and in December the Ottomans formally declared war. The Russo-Ottoman War lasted until 1812. In March 1812, Russia demanded an alliance as part of the treaty to end the war, which was rejected by the Ottomans, who preferred neutrality. It did not find its way into the Treaty of Bucharest, which formally ended the Russo-Ottoman War in May.