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1663

Turkish War with Austria

1663

Grand Vizier Kopruluzade Fazil Ahmed led Ottoman armies into Royal Hungary, besieging and taking the border fortress of Novy Zamky. Austria bled and called on allied German princes. The Ottoman threat to Christian Europe, long dormant, was awake again and marching toward Vienna, setting the stage for the climactic siege that would come twenty years later.