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Battle of Vienna
1683
13 July-12 September 1683
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Later Turkish- Habsburg Wars

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As Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa advanced up the Danube the Emperor fled Vienna, leaving Governor Count Rudiger von Starhemberg to hold the city against siege. After two months, John III Sobieski of Poland and Charles V of Lorraine arrived and destroyed the besieging army in mountains to the south at Kahlenberg. The Turks fled and the West was saved.


   
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