Campania antiotomană din 1664 şi pacea de la Vasvár (Eisenberg). Preliminarii şi consecinţe
The War of 1664 and the Peace of Vasvar. Preliminaries and Consequences

Summary/Abstract: In the second half of the 17th century, George Rákóczy the II-nd tried to obtain the Polish throne and he made the Romanian princes, Constantin Şerban and Gheorghe Ştefan, to help him, in 1657. This was the sparkle which rekindle the wish of Ottoman Empire to be the master of the Central and South-Eastern Europe. First the Turks occupied the fortress Oradea (1660) and the Tatars stroke Transylvania during the intrerregn, ended in 1661. After that, came the Ottoman campaign in Hungary. in 1663/1664, which was the opportunity for the german princes, ostile to emperor Leopold the I-st, to make an alliance with the France, a traditional rival of the House of Austria. The Hungarians consider that the new alliance could give them the opportunity to gain the independence from the Austrian rulers. After all the imperial army obtain the victory and the Ottomans were defeated. The peace treaty negotiated, aimed to end quickly the hostilities, and all the Europe, especially the Hungarians, consider that the Emperor made a big mistake to gave to the Ottomans such good conditions, when they were defeated. One of the motive of such a hurry was the French menace to the Ryne border, but the most important was the political situation from Hungary, where the nobility made a true surrounded, which threated the domination of the Austrians in the kingdom. The peace of Vasvar (1664) was concluded in very good terms for the Ottoman Empire, which kept all the conquests from the campaign, included the right to organize a new vilayet (county) of Oradea, in the north-west of Transylvania. The moment of the Vasvar peace had a tremendous importance for all the events wich continued, in the next decades. This was the beginning of a long hostility, between the Hungarian nobility and the Viena Court. This hostility ended with the Transylvanian-Ottoman alliance, in 1683, for a unified Hungarian Kingdom, under the Ottoman rule.

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