Ottoman raids on Moravia

Ottoman raids on Moravia
	Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars
	; Map of the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1648; (Highlights the close proximity of the Ottomans to Moravia and Austria)
Date	1599–1711
Location	Margraviate of Moravia, near the Military Frontier, Holy Roman Empire; (modern-day Czech Republic)
Result	Hundreds of thousands enslaved; Tens of thousands killed;
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate; Principality of Transylvania; Principality of Upper Hungary; ; Principality of Transylvania;	Habsburg monarchy Kingdom of Bohemia Margraviate of Moravia; ; ;
Commanders and leaders
Stephen Bocskai; Gabriel Bethlen; Emeric Thököly; Francis Rákóczi	Jean-Louis de Souches; Valerián Podstacký; Hetman Dombrovského

From 1599 until 1711, the Ottomans and their vassals posed a direct threat to the Margraviate of Moravia, a Crown land of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which was an important state within the Habsburg-ruled Holy Roman Empire. Numerous raids were launched on these lands by the Ottomans, and often encompassed the entirety of the region; but its effects were felt most in the Slovakian and Wallachian cultural subregions of southern and eastern Moravia, nowadays part of the Czech Republic but situated near the Ottoman-Habsburg Military Frontier at the time.

The raids spanned nearly the entirety of Moravia, and often took place concomitantly with Ottoman-Tatar raids into Austria and Silesia.^[1] The Tatars reached as westward as Liechtenstein during these raids, and the joint Ottoman-Tatar forces pillaged Moravian settlements reaching to and beyond the capital of the region (Brno) several times.^[2] In total, tens of thousands were killed whilst hundreds of thousands were enslaved and distributed across the Ottoman Empire to be sold as part of the country's slave trade.

^ Krokar, James P. (2008). Delano-Smith, Catherine (ed.). "New Means to an Old End: Early Modern Maps in the Service of an Anti‐Ottoman Crusade". Imago Mundi. 60 (1). London: Routledge: 33. ISSN 1479-7801.
^ Williams, Brian G. (2013). The Sultan’s Raiders: The Military Role of the Crimean Tatars in the Ottoman Empire (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Jamestown Foundation. p. 31. ISBN 9780983084280.

[Krokar,_2008-1] Krokar, James P. (2008). Delano-Smith, Catherine (ed.). "New Means to an Old End: Early Modern Maps in the Service of an Anti‐Ottoman Crusade". Imago Mundi. 60 (1). London: Routledge: 33. ISSN 1479-7801.

[Williams,_2013-2] Williams, Brian G. (2013). The Sultan’s Raiders: The Military Role of the Crimean Tatars in the Ottoman Empire (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Jamestown Foundation. p. 31. ISBN 9780983084280.

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