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Article: Austro-Ottoman Wars
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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AUSTRO-OTTOMAN WARS
AUSTRO-OTTOMAN WARS.
By the early sixteenth century, there was steady low-level
conflict in a border zone roughly defined by the Danube and Sava rivers between the Ottomans and European Christian rulers as a result of the Ottoman conquests of Balkan territory that began in the late fourteenth century. In 1520, a new Ottoman sultan, Suleiman I (also called Suleiman the Magnificent), took the throne. After the Ottomans secured control over Egypt by defeating the Mamluks and established an eastern border by defeating the Safavids of Iran at Chaldiran in 1514, attention turned back to the Balkans. When Louis II, king of Hungary and Bohemia (ruled 1506
–
1526), ...