Battle of Zernest

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Battle of Zernest
Part of Great Turkish War
Date 11 (21) August 1690 Location Zernest, Ottoman Empire Result Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Holy Roman Empire Transylvania	Hungarian Kurucs Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate Wallachia
Commanders and leaders
Donat Heissler (POW) Mihály Teleki †	Imre Thököly Constantin Brâncoveanu Cerkes Ahmed Paşa † Ghazi Garay
Strength
2,000 Imperial cavalrymen and 7,000 Transylvanians	16,000
Casualties and losses
1,800 Imperials killed, wounded or prisoner	300

The Battle of Zernest was fought on 11 August 1690, near the town of Zernest in southeastern Transylvania (today Zărnești, in Romania), between the allied forces of Transylvania and the Holy Roman Empire, and the allied forces of the Ottoman Empire, Tatar allies, Wallachians, and Hungarian Kurucs.