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Holy League

 European alliance [1684]

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  • Battle of Zenta ( in Battle of Zenta (European history) )

    ...on the Tisa River during a war (1683–99) between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League (Austria–Poland–Venice–Russia), a victory that made Austria the foremost power in central Europe.

  • Carlowitz treaty ( in Treaty of Carlowitz (Europe [1699]) )

    (Jan. 26, 1699), peace settlement that ended hostilities (1683–99) between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League (Austria, Poland, Venice, and Russia) and transferred Transylvania and much of Hungary from Turkish control to Austrian. The treaty significantly diminished Turkish influence in east-central Europe and made Austria the dominant power there.

  • war with Ottoman Empire ( in Ottoman Empire (historical empire, Asia): Military defeats and the emergence of the Eastern Question, 1683–1792 )

    ...during the period between the second siege of Vienna (1683) and the Treaty of Jassy (1792). From 1683 to 1699 it fought the armies of the Holy League in a disastrous war that culminated in the Treaty of Carlowitz (1699). In 1710–11 it fought Russia again, and at the Treaty of the Pruth (1711) it regained some territories...

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  • Ahmed II ( in Ahmed II (Ottoman sultan) )

    Ottoman sultan (1691–95) whose reign was marked by the continuing war with the Holy League (Austria-Poland-Venice).

  • John III Sobieski ( in Poland: Decline and attempts at reform )

    ...Prussia in alliance with France. But that plan did not succeed. With the papacy and the Habsburgs preparing for all-out war against Turkey, John reverted to an anti-Turkish policy and concluded an alliance with Austria. In 1683 he led a relief army to a Vienna besieged by the Turks and, as supreme commander of the allied forces, won a resounding victory that marked the beginning of Turkish...

  • Mustafa II ( in Mustafa II (Ottoman sultan) )

    Ottoman sultan from 1695 to 1703, whose determination to regain territories lost after the unsuccessful attempt to take Vienna in 1683 led to the continuation of the war against the Holy League (Austria, Poland, and Venice).

  • Peter I ( in Peter I (emperor of Russia): The Azov campaigns (1695–96) )

    ...Tatar vassals of Turkey. On the one hand, these Azov campaigns could be seen as fulfilling Russia’s commitments, undertaken during Sophia’s regency, to the anti-Turkish “Holy League” of 1684 (Austria, Poland, and Venice); on the other they were intended to secure the southern frontier against Tatar raids, as well as to approach the Black Sea. The first campaign...

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