The Treaty of Karlowitz was a peace settlement that ended the Great Turkish War, fought between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League of the Habsburg monarchy, Poland-Lithuania, Venice and, for part of the war, Russia. The Ottomans had been defeated at Vienna in 1683 and at Zenta in 1697. Under the treaty they gave up most of Hungary and Transylvania to the Habsburgs, Podolia to Poland, and the Morea in Greece, together with parts of Dalmatia, to Venice. The talks, held in a Danubian town in what is now Serbia, were mediated by Britain and the Dutch Republic. The treaty marked the first major Ottoman loss of territory in Europe and the rise of the Habsburgs as the dominant power in the region.
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