Confrontation on the Transylvanian-ottoman frontier: the battles in Banat during the “Long Turkish War
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Adrian Magina
Date Issued
2025
Type
article
Volume
8
Start Page
53
End Page
68
Journal
Abstract
In the Long War between Habsburgs and Ottomans (1593-1606), the Principality of Transylvania was also involved. In clashes between Transylvanians and Turks, the most important theatre of operations was the territory of present-day Banat. Conquered by the Ottomans following the military campaign of 1552, the lowland area of Banat (the Mureș valley, the area around Timișoara) remained a territory from which the Crescent troops could put pressure on the principality of Transylvania. This is why, during the Long War, the Christians constantly tried to recover these territories from the Ottomans. Although they had a number of notable successes (recapturing Lipova, for example), the Transylvanians failed twice in their attempt to conquer the centre of the eyalet, the town of Timișoara. The peace concluded in 1606 confirmed the new territorial configuration of the Ottoman-Transylvanian frontier, but the situation was temporary; all the territories conquered by the Christians during the Long War being recovered by the Ottomans in the following decades.
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