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Battle of Kassa

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Battle of Kassa
Part ofGreat Turkish War
DateOctober 18, 1685
Location
Result Holy Roman Empire victory
Belligerents
Holy Roman Empire Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Aeneas de Caprara Abdi Pasha the Albanian


TheBattle of Kassawas fought on October 18, 1685, in the city ofKassain theKingdom of Hungary(now Košice in Slovakia), between the armies of theOttoman Empireand of theHoly Roman Empire.[1]

The Austrian Commander, Field MarshalAeneas de Caprara,defeated theOttoman Armynear the city and with this victory regained Habsburg control of which had been lost in 1682 to theKurucleaderImre Thököly.Košice at the time was defended by a modern pentagonal fortress (citadel) built by the Habsburgs south of the city in the 1670s.

References

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  1. ^Etényi, Nóra G. (2021-04-30)."Protestant" Athleta Christi "in the Propaganda of the Great Turkish War: The Demise of Georg Friedrich, Duke of Wurttemberg at Košice, 1685".Historical Studies on Central Europe.1(1): 97–128.doi:10.47074/HSCE.2021-1.05.ISSN2786-0922.