Long Turkish War

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Long War Fifteen Years' War of Hungary
Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars & Ottoman wars in Europe
Allegory of the Turkish war – The declaration of war before Constantinople
Date 29 July 1593 – 11 November 1606 (13 years, 3 months, 1 week and 6 days) Location Hungary, Wallachia, Balkans Result Inconclusive Peace of Zsitvatorok
Belligerents
Habsburg monarchy  Holy Roman Empire  Saxony Duchy of Mantua  Duchy of Savoy Duchy of Carniola Kingdom of Hungary[1] Kingdom of Croatia[1] Grand Duchy of Tuscany Knights of St. Stephen Principality of Transylvania  Wallachia Moldavia  France  Spain Duchy of Ferrara Zaporozhian Cossacks Serbian hajduks Papal States Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth[2]	Ottoman Empire • Khanate of Crimea
Commanders and leaders
Rudolf II Vincenzo I Gonzaga Hermann Christof von Russwurm  Karl von Mansfeld (DOW) Michael the Brave † Ruprecht von Eggenberg Giorgio Basta István Bocskai Starina Novak	Murad III Mehmed III Ahmed I Koca Sinan Pasha Cığalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha Lala Mehmed Pasha Tiryaki Hasan Pasha Damat Ibrahim Pasha Telli Hasan Pasha †
Strength
More than 100,000 men[3][4][5]	160,000–180,000[6][7]
Casualties and losses
Unknown, heavy	Unknown, heavy

The Long Turkish War (German: Langer Türkenkrieg), Long War (Hungarian: Hosszú háború; Croatian: Dugi turski rat, Serbian: Дуги рат), or Thirteen Years' War was an indecisive land war between the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Empire, primarily over the principalities of Wallachia, Transylvania, and Moldavia.^[8] It was waged from 1593 to 1606, but in Europe, it is sometimes called the Fifteen Years' War (Hungarian: Tizenöt éves háború), reckoning from the 1591–1592 Turkish campaign that captured Bihać. In Turkey, it is called the Ottoman–Austrian War of 1593–1606 (Turkish: 1593–1606 Osmanlı-Avusturya Savaşı).^[9]

In the series of Ottoman wars in Europe, it was the major test of force in the time period between the Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573) and the Cretan War (1645–1669). The next of the major Ottoman–Habsburg wars was the Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664). Overall, the conflict consisted in a large number of costly battles and sieges, but with little gain on either side.