Selim II had posed less of a…
May 1593 CE
Selim II had posed less of a threat to Europe after Sultan Suleiman's death in 1566.
Though Cyprus had finally been captured, the Ottomans had failed against the Habsburgs at sea.
Selim had died not too long after, leaving his son Murad III, a hedonist and a womanizer who spends more time at his Harem than at the war front.
The Empire, under such deteriorating circumstances, finds itself at war with the Austrians yet again.
After intensifying skirmishes from 1591, Murad now turns to Europe, beginning what will prove to be a fifteen years’ long war against Austria, sparked by fighting in the Bihac region of northwestern Bosnia.