Battle of Kassa
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Battle of Kassa | |||||||
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Part of Great Turkish War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Holy Roman Empire | Ottoman Empire | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Aeneas de Caprara | Abdi Pasha the Albanian |
The Battle of Kassa was fought on October 18, 1685, in the city of Kassa in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia), between the armies of the Ottoman Empire and of the Holy Roman Empire.[1]
The Austrian Commander, Field Marshal
Imre Thököly. Košice at the time was defended by a modern pentagonal fortress (citadel
) built by the Habsburgs south of the city in the 1670s.
References
- ISSN 2786-0922.