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Habsburg–Ottoman War

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ34597134 ↗
Source-derived summary

The term Habsburg–Ottoman War or Ottoman–Habsburg War may refer to:

Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary (1526–1568)

Habsburg–Ottoman war of 1529–1533

Habsburg–Ottoman war of 1540–1547

Habsburg–Ottoman war of 1551–1562

Habsburg–Ottoman war of 1565–1568

Habsburg–Ottoman war of 1593–1606, a.k.a. the Long Turkish War)

Habsburg–Ottoman war of 1663–1664, a.k.a. the Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664)

Habsburg–Ottoman war of 1683–1699, a.k.a. the Great Turkish War

Habsburg–Ottoman war of 1716–1718, a.k.a. the Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718)

Habsburg–Ottoman war of 1737–1739, a.k.a. the Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739)

Habsburg–Ottoman war of 1788–1791, a.k.a.

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“Habsburg–Ottoman War” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Habsburg, Ottoman and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1526, 1568, 1529, 1533—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Habsburg, Ottoman and Wikimedia.
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Why this record matters

“Habsburg–Ottoman War” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Habsburg, Ottoman and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q34597134. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1526, 1568, 1529 and 1533.

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This entry incorporates text from “Habsburg–Ottoman War” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.