Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718)

Austro-Turkish War (1716-1718)
The Battle of Petrovaradin by Jan Pieter van Bredael
Date 13 April 1716 – 21 July 1718 Location Sanjak of Smederevo, the Military Frontier, Bosnia, the Banat and Transylvania Result Habsburg Monarchy Victory Treaty of Passarowitz Territorial changes The Banat, Serbia, Oltenia and portions of northern Bosnia were ceded to the Habsburgs
Belligerents
Habsburg Monarchy	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Prince Eugene of Savoy	Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha † Hacı Halil Pasha
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown

The Austro-Turkish War (1716-1718) was fought between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire. The 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz was not an acceptable long-standing agreement for the Ottoman Empire. Twelve years after Karlowitz, the Turks began the long term prospect of taking revenge for their defeat at the Battle of Vienna in 1683. First, the Turkish Grand Vizier Baltacı Mehmet's army defeated Peter the Great's Russian Army in the Russo-Turkish War (1710–1711). Then during the Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718), the Ottoman Grand Vizier Damat Ali re-conquered the Morea from the Venetians. As a reaction as the guarantor of the Treaty of Karlowitz, Austria threatened the Ottoman Empire, causing the Turks to declare war in April 1716.^[1]

In 1716, Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the Turks at Petrovaradin. The Banat and its capital Timişoara was conquered by Prince Eugene in October 1716. The following year, after the Austrians captured Belgrade, the Turks sought peace and the Treaty of Passarowitz was signed on 21 July 1718.^[2][3][4]

The Habsburgs gained control of Belgrade, Temesvár (the last Ottoman fortress in Hungary), the Banat region, and portions of northern Serbia. Wallachia (an autonomous Ottoman vassal) ceded Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia) to the Habsburg Monarchy, which established the Banat of Craiova. The Turks retained control only of the territory south of the Danube River. The pact stipulated that Venice surrender the Morea to the Ottomans while retaining the Ionian Islands and making gains in Dalmatia.^[4][5][6][7]

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References[]

• Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
• Dupuy, R. Ernest; Dupuy, Trevor N. (1993). The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C.to the Present. Nw York: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 0-06-270056-1.
• "Treaty of Passarowitz". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
• Ingrao, Charles; Samardžić, Nikola; Pešalj, Jovan, eds. (2011). The Peace of Passarowitz, 1718. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press.
• Kohn, George Childs (1999). Dictionary of Wars (Revised ed.). New York: Facts On File, Inc. ISBN 0-8160-3928-3.

Further Readings[]

• Hochedlinger, Michael (2013). Austria's Wars of Emergence: War, State and Society in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1683–1797. London & New York: Routledge.

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