Treaty of Passarowitz
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Signed | 21 July 1718 |
Location | Passarowitz, Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia (now Požarevac, Serbia) |
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The Treaty of Passarowitz, or Treaty of Požarevac, was the peace treaty signed in Požarevac (Serbian Cyrillic: Пожаревац, German: Passarowitz), a town that was in the Ottoman Empire but is now in Serbia, on 21 July 1718 between the Ottoman Empire and Austria of the Habsburg monarchy and the Republic of Venice.[1]
The treaty saw the cession of several Ottoman territories to the Habsburgs, and it was regarded in its time as an extraordinary success and source of pride in Vienna.[2]
Background
Between 1714 and 1718, the Ottomans had been successful against Venice in
Peace was arranged with the intervention of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic, and the treaty was signed by Sir Robert Sutton and Jacob Colyer on behalf of their governments.[3] The other signatories were
- Damian Hugo, Count of Virmont and Michael von Talmann for Austria,
- Vendramino Bianchi and Carlo Ruzzini for Venice
- Silindar Ibrahim–aga and Mehmed–efendija for the Ottoman Empire.
Terms
The Ottoman Empire lost the
Venice ceded the Morea, its last remaining outposts in Crete, and the islands of Aegina and Tinos. Venice retained only the Ionian Islands (with Ottoman-occupied Kythira added to them), and the cities of Preveza and Arta on the Epirote mainland. In Dalmatia, Venice made some small advances by taking the areas of Imotski and Vrgorac in the Hinterland.[citation needed]
Aftermath
The treaty gave the Habsburgs control over the northern part of present-day Serbia, which they had temporarily occupied during the Great Turkish War between 1688 and 1690. The Habsburgs established the Kingdom of Serbia as a crown land. The Habsburgs also formed the Banat into another crown land.[5]
Austrian control lasted 21 years, when the Turks won the
See also
References
- ^ Ingrao, Samardžić & Pešalj 2011.
- ISBN 0871691922.
- ^ a b Setton (1991), 449.
- ISBN 978-1610693899.
- ^ Ćirković 2004, p. 151.
Sources
- Hochedlinger, Michael (2013). Austria's Wars of Emergence: War, State and Society in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1683–1797. London & New York: Routledge.
- Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
- Ingrao, Charles; Samardžić, Nikola; Pešalj, Jovan, eds. (2011). The Peace of Passarowitz, 1718. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press.
External links
- "Treaty of Passarowitz". Encyclopædia Britannica. 14 July 2023.
- Text of treaty in English