Siege of Vienna (1683)
1683 · Event
Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa brings perhaps 150,000 men to the walls of the Habsburg capital, gambling everything on taking the 'golden apple' of Ottoman ambition. The emperor flees; 15,000 defenders under Starhemberg hold the city for two months against the most methodical siege engineering of the age, while a relief army gathers beyond the Danube.
On these timelines: The 1683 Siege of Vienna, The Habsburg Dynasty, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Germany
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