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Treaty of Paris (1920)

Treaty of Paris (28 October 1920), the Bessarabia treaty: Britain, France, Italy, Japan and Romania recognised Romanian sovereignty over Bessarabia to the Dniester; Japan never ratified, so it never entered into force.

Treaty of Paris (1951)

Treaty of Paris (1951), or ECSC Treaty, signed 18 April 1951 by the Inner Six, created the first supranational European organization for a coal and steel common market; in force 23 July 1952, expired 2002.

Treaty of Passarowitz

Treaty of Passarowitz (Pasarofça Antlaşması), 21 July 1718 peace at Požarevac ending the Austro-Turkish and Morean wars; Habsburg gains of Banat, Belgrade, northern Serbia and Bosnia; reversed at Belgrade 1739.

Treaty of Peace and Friendship (1904)

The Treaty of Peace and Friendship (Tratado de Paz, Amistad y Comercio), signed at Santiago on 20 October 1904 by Chile and Bolivia, ended the War of the Pacific: Bolivia ceded its 400-km coastline, receiving perpetual free transit through Chilean ports, customs agencies at Arica and Antofagasta, and the Chile-funded Arica–La Paz railway.

Treaty of Petrópolis

Treaty of Petrópolis (Tratado de Petrópolis), Brazil-Bolivia boundary treaty signed 17 November 1903, in force 10 March 1904: Bolivia ceded Acre (191,000 km²) for £2,000,000, small compensatory territories, and the Madeira-Mamoré railway.

Treaty of Pontotoc Creek

Treaty of Pontotoc Creek (Treaty of Pontitock Creek), signed October 20, 1832 at the Chickasaw Council House, Mississippi, ceded all Chickasaw lands east of the Mississippi; proceeds from government land sales funded removal and a national trust fund.

Treaty of Rapallo (1922)

Treaty of Rapallo (1922), German-Soviet agreement signed April 16, 1922 at Rapallo near Genoa by Rathenau and Chicherin during the Genoa Conference; restored diplomatic relations, mutual renunciation of war claims, made Versailles Article 116 moot, basis of interwar German-Soviet relations, distinct from the 1920 Italo-Yugoslav Treaty of Rapallo.

Treaty of Rarotonga

Treaty of Rarotonga (South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty), signed 6 August 1985, in force 11 December 1986: bans nuclear explosive devices, stationing, testing, and radioactive waste dumping in the South Pacific, with three protocols for nuclear-weapon states.

Treaty of Resht

The Treaty of Resht, also spelled Rasht, was a 1732 friendship treaty between Russia and Safavid Persia by which Russia returned most of its Caspian provinces.

Treaty of Riga

Treaty of Riga (18 March 1921), Polish–Soviet peace ending the 1919–1920 war; also the Riga peace. Fixed a 1,412 km border, awarded Poland 30 million gold roubles never paid, and lasted until 1939.

Treaty of Rome

Treaty of Rome (EEC Treaty), signed 25 March 1957 by six countries with the Euratom Treaty, in force 1 January 1958; created the European Economic Community, common market, customs union, and institutions; now the TFEU.

Treaty of Roskilde

Treaty of Roskilde (Roskildefreden), peace of 26 February 1658 between Denmark-Norway and Sweden ending the First Karl Gustav War; Denmark ceded Scania, Halland, Blekinge, Bornholm, Bohuslän, and Trøndelag.

Treaty of Saginaw

The Treaty of Saginaw, also called the Treaty with the Chippewa, was signed on September 24, 1819, ceding over six million acres of central Michigan to the United States.

Treaty of Sahagún (1158)

Treaty of Sahagún (Tratado de Sahagún), peace pact of 23 May 1158 between brothers Sancho III of Castile and Fernando II of León: Cea river boundary, mutual aid, no separate deals with Portugal, partition of future southern conquests; lapsed within years.

Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881)

Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881), also Ili Treaty or 伊犁条约, a Russo-Qing treaty signed 12/24 February 1881: Russia returned most of the Ili region for 9 million roubles and trade privileges, ending the Ili crisis without war.

Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)

Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919): peace treaty signed 10 September 1919 between the Allied Powers and Austria, in force 16 July 1920, 381 articles, no fixed reparations sum, model for Trianon.

Treaty of San Stefano

Treaty of San Stefano (Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano, Ayastefanos), signed March 3, 1878 between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78; its Greater Bulgaria and Russian gains were revised at the Congress of Berlin.

Treaty of Sapienza

Treaty of Sapienza, a June 1209 agreement between Venice and Geoffroy de Villehardouin, signed on the island of Sapienza off Modon, concerning Coron and Modon and seen as foundational for the Venetian sea state after 1204.

Treaty of Schönbrunn (1809)

The Treaty of Schönbrunn, also called the Treaty of Vienna, was the peace treaty signed on 14 October 1809 that ended Napoleon's Austrian campaign after Austria's defeat at Wagram.

Treaty of Selymbria

Treaty of Selymbria (Selymbria Antlaşması), peace agreement of 3 September 1411 between Venice and Ottoman prince Musa Çelebi of Rumelia, repeating earlier accords and fixing Venetian tribute of 1,000, 500, and 100 ducats for Albania, Patras, and Lepanto.

Treaty of Sèvres

The Treaty of Sèvres was the peace treaty signed with the Ottoman Empire on 10 August 1920 after World War I; it was never ratified.

Treaty of Shimonoseki

The Treaty of Shimonoseki (下関条約, Maguan Tiaoyue), signed April 17, 1895, ended the First Sino-Japanese War: China recognized Korea's independence, ceded Taiwan, the Pescadores, and Liaodong to Japan, and paid 200 million taels.

Treaty of Sistova

Treaty of Sistova (Sistovo, Ziştovi), signed 4 August 1791 between Habsburg Emperor Leopold II and the Ottoman Porte under Prussian, British, and Dutch mediation, ended the 1788–1791 Austro-Turkish war on a territorial status quo and preceded the Treaty of Jassy with Russia.

Treaty of Stettin (1570)

Treaty of Stettin (Peace of Stettin), 13 December 1570, at Stettin in Pomerania: Denmark-Sweden treaty ending the Nordic Seven Years' War, with a 150,000-riksdaler Älvsborg ransom and Rostock arbitration of the Three Crowns question.

Treaty of Stettin (1630)

Treaty of Stettin (1630), Stettiner Allianz, Fördraget i Stettin: Swedish-Pomeranian defensive alliance of 25 August 1630, retroactive to the July landing, giving Sweden legal basis to occupy Pomerania with 100,000 talers annual contribution and four garrisons.

Treaty of Stettin (1653)

Treaty of Stettin (Grenzrezess von Stettin), 4 May 1653, between Sweden and Brandenburg: fixed the Pomeranian border per Peace of Osnabrück Article 10, gave Sweden Vorpommern with Stettin and an eventual succession in Hinterpommern, and began the Swedish evacuation on 1 June 1653.

Treaty of Stralsund (1370)

Treaty of Stralsund (1370), peace signed 24 May 1370 between the Hanseatic League and Denmark's royal council under Henning Podebusk, ending the Second Danish-Hanseatic War; granted the Hanse Scanian revenues, Sound fortress control, and marked its power peak.

Treaty of Stuhmsdorf

The Treaty of Stuhmsdorf, also called the Truce of Stuhmsdorf or Rozejm w Sztumskiej Wsi, was a 26-year armistice between Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth signed in 1635.

Treaty of Tarbagatai

The Treaty of Tarbagatai, also called the Treaty of Chuguchak, was an 1864 border treaty between Qing China and the Russian Empire, ceding about 440,000 square kilometers.

Treaty of Tartu (Finland–Russia)

Treaty of Tartu (Tarton rauha, Treaty of Dorpat), signed 14 October 1920 in Tartu between Finland and Soviet Russia; ended their war, kept the Grand Duchy border, gave Finland Petsamo, and ceded Repola and Porajärvi.