Price To Pay For War

"Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain."

-        Second Book of Horace, Alexander Pope (Pope is his surname)

The negotiation between the two sides went on smoothly, with the final deal being set in merely two days, a miracle for any sort of negotiations. With the peace treaty being signed it successfully marked the end of this winter campaign, the Ottomans promised to cede the strip of land to the Romans creating a buffer zone, never to infiltrate in to Roman controlled Thrace again, stop persecuting the Romans in their own territories, open up trade for the merchants from Thessaloniki and never to sabotage the city of Constantinople.