Treaty of Adrianople (1829)

The treaty was signed on 14 September 1829 in Adrianople by Count Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov of Russia and Abdülkadir Bey of the Ottoman Empire.

[2] The Ottoman Empire gave Russia access to the mouths of the Danube and the fortresses of Akhaltsikhe and Akhalkalaki in Georgia.

The Sultan recognized Russia's possession of Georgia (with Imeretia, Mingrelia, Guria) and of the Khanates of Erivan and Nakhichevan which had been ceded to the tsar by Persia in the Treaty of Turkmenchay a year earlier.

[5][6] The main sections of the treaty were as follows: Among the inhabitants of the annexed territory, Georgians predominated, in addition to whom there lived Azerbaijanis ("Tatars" in the terminology of that time), Turks, Armenians, Kurds.

[7] Full text of the Treaty in "The History of the Eastern Question", p. 68, at https://archive.org/details/history-of-eastern-question-2nd/page/n11/mode/2up Media related to Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829) at Wikimedia Commons