Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718)

See also: Ottoman–Habsburg wars

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

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 Austrian victory Treaty of Passarowitz Territorial changes The Banat, Serbia, Oltenia and portions of northern Bosnia were ceded to the Habsburgs
Belligerents
Habsburg Monarchy Serbian Militia^[a] Württemberg^[citation needed]	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Prince Eugene of Savoy	Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha † Hacı Halil Pasha
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown

In 1716, Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the Turks at the Battle of Petrovaradin. The Banat and its capital, Temesvár, were 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 for Venice to surrender the Morea to the Ottomans, but it retained the Ionian Islands and made gains in Venetian Dalmatia.^[4][5][6][7]

The Carpatho-Danubian-Pontic Space in 1718 AD, after the Treaty of Passarowitz.

Notes

1. As well as Serbian garrison troops during the Battle of Petrovaradin^{[citation needed]}

References

1. Dupuy and Dupuy (1993), p. 702.
2. Dupuy and Dupuy (1993), pp. 702–703.
3. Ingrao, Samardžić & Pešalj 2011.
4. Kohn (1999), p. 46.
5. Dupuy and Dupuy (1993), p. 703.
6. Encyclopedia Britannica.
7. Ćirković (2004), p. 151.

Sources

• Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781405142915.
• Dupuy, R. Ernest; Dupuy, Trevor N. (1993). The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C.to the Present. New 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. ISBN 9781557535948.
• Kohn, George Childs (1999). Dictionary of Wars (Revised ed.). New York: Facts On File, Inc. ISBN 0-8160-3928-3.

Further reading

• Hochedlinger, Michael (2013). Austria's Wars of Emergence: War, State and Society in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1683–1797. London & New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781317887935.