The Treaty of Belgrade , also known as the Belgrade Peace , was the peace treaty signed on September 18, 1739 in Belgrade , Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia (today Serbia ), by the Ottoman Empire on one side and the Habsburg monarchy on the other, that ended the Austro–Turkish War (1737–39) . It also recognized Circassia , particularly its eastern half Kabardia , as an independent nation for the first time by the European countries.
3-735: This treaty ended the hostilities of the five-year Austro-Russian–Turkish War (1735–39) , in which the Habsburgs joined Imperial Russia in its fight against the Ottomans. Austria was defeated by the Turks at Grocka and signed a separate treaty in Belgrade with the Ottoman Empire on August 21, probably being alarmed at the prospect of Russian military success. With the Treaty of Belgrade,
6-591: The Treaty of Niš , whereby it was allowed to build a port at Azov , gaining a foothold on the Black Sea . The Treaty of Belgrade effectively ended the autonomy of Kingdom of Serbia which had existed since 1718. This territory would await the next Habsburg-Ottoman war to be temporarily again included into the Habsburg monarchy in 1788 with the help of Koča Anđelković . The treaty is also notable for being one of
9-598: The Habsburgs ceded the Kingdom of Serbia with Belgrade, the southern part of the Banat of Temeswar and northern Bosnia to the Ottomans, and the Banat of Craiova ( Oltenia ), gained by the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718, to Wallachia (an Ottoman subject), and set the demarcation line to the rivers Sava and Danube . The Habsburg withdrawal forced Russia to accept peace at the Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739 with
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