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Great Turkish War

Years: 1683 - 1699

The Great Turkish War or the War of the Holy League is a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and several contemporary European powers joined into a Holy League, beginning in 1683 and ending with the signing of the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699.

The war is a defeat for the Ottoman Empire, which loses large amounts of territory in Central Europe.

The war is also significant in that it marks the first time Russiais involved in a western European alliance.

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress."

― H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol 2 (1920)