Battle of Szalankemen

August 19, 1691

Imperial forces under Margrave Louis of Baden crushed an Ottoman army on the Danube in present-day Serbia. Grand Vizier Kopruluzade Fazil Mustafa was killed. The Ottoman position in Hungary collapsed completely, and Habsburg armies pushed south toward Belgrade. The map of the Balkans was being redrawn by force of arms, and the Ottoman Empire's European frontier was contracting year by year.