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On September 12, 1683, an Ottoman army of some 150,000 troops besieged Vienna, defended by a garrison of roughly 15,000. The city's walls were failing and supplies were running low when a relief force, assembled under the Polish king Jan Sobieski, arrived to break the siege.
The Ottoman Empire: The Siege of Vienna traces this pivotal campaign and its wider context, drawing on Ottoman court chronicles by Aşıkpaşazâde and Evliya Çelebi, Venetian diplomatic dispatches, Sobieski's own campaign letters, and Ottoman administrative records.
The book spans four centuries of Ottoman history — from Osman's founding of the dynasty in 1299, through the fall of Constantinople in 1453, to the 1683 siege and the execution of Kara Mustafa in Belgrade later that year, concluding with the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699. Along the way it covers the empire's military expansion, administrative structure, and the political dynamics that shaped one of the defining confrontations between the Ottoman and European worlds.
On September 12, 1683, an Ottoman army of some 150,000 troops besieged Vienna, defended by a garrison of roughly 15,000. The city's walls were failing and supplies were running low when a relief force, assembled under the Polish king Jan Sobieski, arrived to break the siege.
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