Person1629 – 1696
John III Sobieski
Also called: Jan III Sobieski
King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (r. 1674–1696) who led the relief army that routed the Ottomans before Vienna in 1683
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The Ottoman grand vizier Kara Mustafa besieged the Habsburg capital Vienna for two months with a huge army but was crushingly defeated by a relief army led by King John III Sobieski of Poland.
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- Kara Mustafa Pasha1683
Ottoman grand vizier (1676–1683) who led the second siege of Vienna and was executed after its failure
Themes this person appears in
- Islamic Empires and the Atlantic World1500 – 1800
Three centuries in which the Ottomans of Suleiman I, the Mughals of Akbar and the Safavids of Abbas I flourished and then faltered, while across the Atlantic the slave trade and colonies transformed the Americas, leading to American independence