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On this day in 1683: the Battle of Vienna takes place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna, after the city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The lifting of the siege marks the beginning of the end of Ottoman domination in Central and Eastern Europe.

  • September 12, 2024



On this day in 1683: the Battle of Vienna takes place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna, after the city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The lifting of the siege marks the beginning of the end of Ottoman domination in Central and Eastern Europe.

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by tllon

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  1. 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, against the Ottomans and their vassal and tributary states.

    The battle marked the first time the Commonwealth and the Holy Roman Empire had cooperated militarily against the Ottomans. The defeat is often seen as a turning point for Ottoman expansion into Europe, after which they would gain no further ground.

    In the ensuing war that lasted until 1699, the Ottomans would cede most of Ottoman Hungary to Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.

  3. The Turkish general who lost the battle/siege was later executed via strangulation on orders of the Sultan

  6. I find it fascinating how the Commonwealth still had enough strength to participate in this given how it was devastated by the Deluge just a few decades earlier.

  7. And as a thank you, Austria participated in the Partition of Poland some years later…

    But still: we remember, the September, when the Winged Hussars arrived

  8. Nitpicky details: Though the battle today is called the battle of the Kahlenberg, and happened on a mountain that today is called Kahlenberg, the battle did not take place on Kahlenberg.

    The mountain (rather hill) where the battle took place used to be called Sauberg (pigs mountain), then in the 17th century was renamed Josephsberg (Joseph’s mountain) until eventually, 10 years after this battle, a church was built on a neighbouring mountain. The neighbouring mountain was called Kahlenberg, but with Leopold’s church on top of it it was renamed Leopoldsberg. This freed up the name and Josephsberg was renamed Kahlenberg…..

    So at the time of the battle Kahlenberg was a very very steep hill further to the north.

    But that is splitting hairs and just useless knowledge for super history nerds đŸ˜›

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