Cucerirea Belgradului de către Habsburgi in izvoare venețiene de la finele secolului al XVII-lea / The conquest of Belgrad by the Habsburgs in Venetian sources at the end of the XVIIth Century

Abstract

National Library of St. Mark’s in Venice hosts a miscellany containing 84 opuscula entitled Reports of the Imperial armies victories over the Turks. At number 7 there is a New and distinctive report about the great fire in the city of Belgrade on the 20th April, with the burning of four thousand houses and the main mosques and the Palace of the Pasha, published in Venice in 1686. The 50th is dedicated to A veritable and distinct report on the conquest of the great city of Belgrade by force of arms, on the 6th of this month, by the powerful army of His Majesty the Emperor commissioned by the Bavarian Elector, glorious in all ages, published in Venice in 1688. At Number 76 is registered A new, verifiable and distinct report arrived from Vienna on June 10, 1691: About the Great Cave, found in the Danube River, capable of housing 100 armed persons able to escape the enemy and prevent him from defended the city of Belgrade and the rest of the Ottoman barbarians, with the progress of Prince Antonio Lieutenant colonel of the Serbs, and with all the victories and victories of the imperial armies against the Thracian enemy so far, which appeared in Venice in 1691. With number 77 is signed A new and distinct report on Ilok and Petrovaradin, abandoned by the Turks, who have retreated beyond Sava, and a Report on a confrontation near Belgrade, with the death and wounding of a large number of Turks and capturing flags by the imperial armies under Colonel Baron of Poland, published in Vienna and Venice in 1691 and sold by [Zuanne] Batti in Saint Mark’s Square. By publishing this documents, the Habsbourgs intend to popularise the successes of the Imperial armies, that after the failed siege of Vienna (1683), entered in possesion of the territories of former Kingdom of Hungary holds by the Ottomans.