In 1681, Hungarian Protestants rebelled against the Austrian Emperor Leopold I’s efforts to impose Catholicism throughout Hungary, and Mustafa decided to support the rebellion in the hopes of being able to break Hungary away from Austria and eventually absorb it into the Ottoman state. Initially, the Grand Vizier Köprülü Mehmed proved a successful military leader, defeating Venice, re-affirming Ottoman power over Transylvania after a brief war with Austria, and waging a successful campaign against Poland.īut a later Grand Vizier, Kara Mustafa, proved less effective in the office. He surrendered a great deal of his political power to his Grand Viziers, inaugurating a gradual decline in the power of the sultan. In the middle of the 18 th century, the reign of Sultan Mehmet IV (1642-93) marked a significant turning point in Ottoman fortunes. This failure brought an end to Ottoman expansion into Europe for 150 years. In 1529, the forces of Suleiman the Magnificent laid siege to Vienna, but was unable to take the city, and heavy snowfall turned the Ottoman withdrawal into a serious disaster. The Ottoman Empire conquered the last remnants of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 and by the early 16 th century the attention of the Ottoman Sultans had turned to expanding up into the Balkans. It reminded me a lot of eggplant after I was done, I thought, “I could have had something else.” So let’s (reluctantly) dig in. It’s notable chiefly for not being especially good or bad, and tackling an important but poorly-known historical event. Renzo Martinelli) is a joint Italian-Polish film about the Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683. Day of the Siege: September Eleven, 1683 (aka September Eleven, 1683, 2012, dir.
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