The Treaties of Carlowitz (1699) includes recent studies on the Lega Sacra War of 1683-1699 against the Ottoman Empire, the Peace treaties of Carlowitz (1699), and on the general impact of the conflict upon Modern Europe and the Balkans. With its contributions written by well-known international specialists in the field, the volume demonstrates that sometimes important conflicts tend to be forgotten with time, overshadowed by more spectacular wars, peace congresses or diplomatic alliances. The “Long War” of 1683-1699 is a case in point. By re-thinking and re-writing the history of the conflict and the subsequent peacemaking between a Christian alliance and the Ottoman state at the end of the 17th century, new perspectives, stretching into the present era, for the history of Europe, the Balkans and the Near East are brought into discussion. Contributors are: Tatjana Bazarova, Maurits van den Boogert, John Paul Ghobrial, Abdullah Güllüoğlu, Zoltan Györe, Colin Heywood, Lothar Höbelt, Erica Ianiro, Charles Ingrao, Dzheni Ivanova, Kirill Kochegarov, Dariusz Kołodziejzcyk, Hans Georg Majer, Ivan Parvev, Arno Strohmeier.

Table of Contents:
 Preface  About the Authors  Introduction Part 1: The War of 1683–1699 – Political Strategies and Balance of Power in Europe  1On the Road to Carlowitz: Visions of Ottoman Diplomacy in the Letters of Thomas Coke, 1691–1694  Jean-Paul A. Ghobrial  2‘This Great Work’: Lord Paget and the Processes of English Mediating Diplomacy in the Latter Stages of the Sacra Lega War, 1697–1698  Colin Heywood  3The Spoils of Peace: What the Dutch Got Out of Carlowitz  Maurits H. van den Boogert  4The War of 1683–1699 and the Beginning of the Eastern Question  Ivan Parvev Part 2: The Sacra Lega War Viewed by the Sublime Porte  5Ottoman Diplomacy in the First Years (1683–1685) of the Ottoman “Long War”  Abdullah Güllüoğlu  6Ottoman Subjects, Habsburg Allies. The Reaya of the Chiprovtsi Region (Northwestern Bulgaria) on the Front Line, 1688–1690  Dzheni Ivanova  7Ottoman Knowledge of the Imperial Commanders  Hans Georg Majer Part 3: Time for War, Time for Peace  8From Slankamen to Zenta: The Austrian War Effort in the East during the 1690s  Lothar Höbelt  9The Habsburgs and the Holy League: Religion or Realpolitik?  Charles Ingrao  10From the ‘Eternal Peace’ to the Treaty of Carlowitz: Relations between Russia, the Sublime Porte and the Crimean Khanate (1686–1699)  Kirill Kochegarov  11The Treaty of Carlowitz in Polish Memory – A Date Better Forgotten?  Dariusz Kołodziejczyk  12The Symbolic Making of the Peace of Carlowitz: The Border Crossing of Count Wolfgang IV of Oettingen-Wallerstein during His Mission as Imperial Grand Ambassador to the Sublime Porte (1699–1701)  Arno Strohmeyer  13The Treaty of Carlowitz and its Impact on Russian-Ottoman Relations, 1700–1710  Tatiana Bazarova Part 4: Early Modern Demographic and Economic Context  14War and Demography: The Case of Hungary 1521–1718  Zoltán Györe  15Venice after Carlowitz: Change and Challenge in Eighteenth-century Venetian Policy  Erica Ianiro  Concluding Remarks  Index