January 26, 1699 · Serbia Theater
January 26, 1699
Signed in the village of Sremski Karlovci, the Treaty of Karlowitz ended the Great Turkish War and redrew the map of southeastern Europe. The Ottoman Empire ceded Hungary, Transylvania, and Slavonia to Austria; Podolia to Poland; Morea (Peloponnese) to Venice; and Azov to Russia. It was negotiated under English and Dutch mediation and represented the first time the Ottoman Empire had signed a peace as the losing party, ceding major territory.
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