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The Battle of Vienna [a] took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September 1683 [2] after the city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The battle was fought by the Holy Roman Empire (led by the Habsburg monarchy ) and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , both under the command of King John III Sobieski ...
The Turks almost captured Vienna, but John III Sobieski led a Christian alliance that defeated them in the Battle of Vienna (1683), stalling the Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern Europe. A new Holy League was initiated by Pope Innocent XI and encompassed the Holy Roman Empire (headed by the Habsburg monarchy), the Polish–Lithuanian ...
The last battle of the campaign was the battle of Podhajce in 1698, where Polish hetman Feliks Kazimierz Potocki defeated the Ottoman incursion into the Commonwealth. The League won the war in 1699 and forced the Ottoman Empire to sign the Treaty of Karlowitz .
The Ottoman siege was broken in the Battle of Vienna by the King of Poland, Jan Sobieski. [4] As a result, an anti-Ottoman Holy League was formed at Linz on 5 March 1684 between Emperor Leopold I , Sobieski, and the Doge of Venice , Marcantonio Giustinian . [ 5 ]
When the siege of Vienna began in 1683, Sobieski and his coalition of Germans and Poles arrived just as Vienna's defense was becoming untenable. In one of history's truly decisive battles, and simultaneously the Ottomans' high watermark; they were defeated and the siege lifted. The climax of the siege of Vienna
"Relief of Vienna 13 September 1683" (PDF). Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-23 .
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The siege of Vienna in 1683 ended in disaster for the Ottomans as their besieging army was routed near Vienna by the relief forces of Polish king Jan III Sobieski. Following the Ottoman defeat, an anti-Ottoman alliance sponsored by the Pope, named the " Holy League " was formed.