What was the result of the Crimean War?
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The Crimean war, one of the bloodiest and most mismanaged contests of the 19th century, was, ostensibly, a holy war. The conflict began with a dispute over the ‘Holy Christian Places’ in the Ottoman province of Palestine. In 1852 France had won special rights for the Roman Catholics, including control of the keys to churches in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, much to the dismay of Greek Orthodox monks. The Russian Tsar then made demands of the Muslim Sultan on behalf of the Orthodox Church. That this quarrel was not the real cause of the war is shown by the way that, once the fighting had started, the issue ceased to be of real significance – so that many textbooks fail even to mention that, in the 1856 Treaty of Paris, the rights and privileges of the Christians in the Ottoman Empire were to be guaranteed by the Sultan.