✦ History

Great Turkish War

1683 – 1699

Result Holy League victory

Ended by Treaty of Karlowitz

A Holy League of the Holy Roman Empire, Poland–Lithuania, Russia, Venice and others fought the Ottoman Empire and won, pushing the Ottomans back in central Europe.

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Battles 7

September 12, 1683
Battle of Vienna Christian coalition victory Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire (now Vienna, Austria) Kara Mustafa Pasha, Murad Giray, John III Sobieski
April 25, 1684 – January 26, 1699
Morean War Venetian victory Mehmed IV, Francesco Morosini, Girolamo Corner
1686 – 1700
Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700) Russian victory Peter the Great, Vasily Golitsyn, Elmas Mehmed Pasha
June 18 – September 2, 1686
Siege of Buda (1686) Holy League victory Buda, Ottoman Hungary (now part of Budapest, Hungary) Sarı Süleyman Pasha, Abdi Pasha the Albanian
August 12, 1687
Battle of Mohács (1687) Imperial victory Nagyharsány, Ottoman Hungary Prince Eugene of Savoy, Maximilian II Emanuel, Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden
August 19, 1691
Battle of Slankamen Imperial victory Slankamen (40 miles north of Belgrade), Sanjak of Syrmia, Ottoman Empire (before Ottoman invasion part of Hungary, today Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Adam Zrinski, Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Pasha
September 11, 1697
Battle of Zenta Holy League victory Near Zenta, Kingdom of Hungary, occupied by the Ottoman Empire; Present-day Senta, Vojvodina, Serbia Prince Eugene of Savoy, Charles Thomas, Prince of Vaudémont, Guido Starhemberg

Key commanders

Holy Roman Empire 9

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor military commander Prince Eugene of Savoy military commander Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden military commander John III Sobieski military commander Charles V of Lorraine military commander Francesco Morosini military commander Stanisław Jan Jabłonowski military commander Maximilian II Emanuel military commander Adam Zrinski military commander

Ottoman Empire 11

Kara Mustafa Pasha military commander Mehmed IV military commander Elmas Mehmed Pasha military commander Sarı Süleyman Pasha military commander Suleiman II military commander Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha military commander Murad Giray military commander Abdi Pasha the Albanian military commander Köprülüzade Fazıl Mustafa Pasha military commander Emeric Thököly military commander Mustafa II military commander

Republic of Venice 2

Francesco Morosini military commander Girolamo Corner military commander

Tsardom of Russia 2

Peter the Great military commander Vasily Golitsyn military commander

Habsburg monarchy 4

Prince Eugene of Savoy military commander Charles Thomas, Prince of Vaudémont military commander Guido Starhemberg military commander Sigbert Heister military commander