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After Ottoman victories at Rhodes (1522), Chios (1566) and Cyprus (1570); Crete (1669) was the last major island in the Eastern Mediterranean to be brought under the control of the Ottoman Empire. [71] Before Ottoman capture, Crete was one of the largest and most prominent overseas holdings of the Republic of Venice. [72]
The Ottoman Empire cedes the Eğri Eyalet, the Varat Eyalet, northern parts of the Temeşvar Eyalet, most of the Budin Eyalet, and parts of the Bosnia Eyalet to the Habsburg monarchy. This territory plus the Principality of Transylvania corresponds to most of the territory of mediaeval Hungary previously lost to the Ottomans ( Ottoman Hungary ).
In contrast, the Habsburg Monarchy, led by Emperor Charles V, stood as a sprawling conglomerate of territories, with the Kingdom of Hungary becoming the crucible of imperial competition. Religious fault lines further fueled the conflict, as the Ottoman Empire, a Sunni Islamic power, clashed with the predominantly Catholic Habsburgs.
The Habsburg monarchy, [i] also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm [j] (/ ˈ h æ p s b ɜːr ɡ /), was the vast collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg. From the 18th century it is also referred to as the Austrian monarchy (Latin: Monarchia Austriaca) or the ...
On the other hand, the position of Charles V and Ferdinand in Hungary was unstable. Only the northern part of the country was under Habsburg control; the southern part was occupied by the Ottoman Empire and, in the central portion of the former kingdom of Louis II, the Voivodeship of Transylvania of John Zápolya emerged as a buffer state. Thus ...
Azov Castle was destroyed, its territory became the border between the Ottoman Empire and Russia. Russians will withdraw from Crimea. Ottoman Empire cedes Azov to Russia. Treaty of Niš; 1737–1739 Austro-Turkish War: Ottoman Empire: Habsburg monarchy: Victory. Habsburg monarchy cedes Kingdom of Serbia, Oltenia, southern Banat to Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman chronicler presented with great enthusiasm in his works how the Ottoman soldiers plundered that rich country, which was like paradise. The imperial troops of Joachim Brandenburgz inflict several defeats on the Turks, force them to retreat and encircle and destroy 10,000 Turkish rearguards in Leobesdorf on September 19, including ...
This was usually under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, however, it often had dual vassalage -Ottoman Turkish sultans and the Habsburg Hungarian kings- in the 16th and 17th centuries). [18] Protestants, who were persecuted in Royal Hungary, considered the Counter-Reformation a greater menace than the Turks, however. [17]