Peace of Adrianople (1568)
The Peace of Adrianople (1568) ended the war between the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire from 1566 to 1568, also known as the 2nd Austrian Turkish War , and was concluded between Emperor Maximilian II and Sultan Selim II .
The Habsburg negotiators were Bishop Antun Vrančić and Christoph von Teuffenbach , on the Ottoman side Mehmed Sokollu Pascha . The negotiations were conducted in Slavonian, the language of the historical Slavonia region in eastern Croatia. The negotiations lasted five months and initially began in Istanbul . After the Sultan's court moved to Adrianople , the contract was signed there on February 21, 1568.
Main components:
- The time of peace was limited to eight years, during which no party conquered foreign land and no hostage-taking were carried out.
- Maximilian agreed to pay an annual "honorary gift" of 30,000 ducats.
- A committee to establish a demarcation line is established.
- Villages in the disputed border area may be taxed on both sides.
- Both parties are allowed to build fortresses. See also military border
- Maximilian granted the Ottoman Empire sovereignty over the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia .
- Transylvania was separated from Hungary and became a vassal principality of the Ottoman Empire.
- Border incidents are clarified by a mediation committee.
The peace treaty was extended three times, in 1574, 1583 and 1590, and ushered in a 25-year period of peace.
literature
- Kenneth Meyer Setton: The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571: The Sixteenth Century , Volume IV. The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia 1984, ISBN 0-87169-162-0 .
- Gustav Bayerle: Ottoman Diplomacy in Hungary publisher = Indiana University Publications 1972, ISBN 0-87750-169-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kenneth Meyer Setton: The Papacy and the Levant , 1204-1571: The Sixteenth Century Vol. IV, 1991, pp. 921-922