Treaty of Passarowitz


The Treaty of Passarowitz or Treaty of Požarevac was the peace treaty signed in Požarevac, a town in the Ottoman Empire, on 21 July 1718 between the Ottoman Empire on one side and Austria of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Republic of Venice on the other.

Background

Between 1714 and 1718, the Ottomans had been successful against Venice in Greece and Crete but had been defeated at Petrovaradin by the Austrian troops of Prince Eugene of Savoy.

Terms

The treaty reflected the military situation. The Ottoman Empire lost the Banat and southeastern Syrmia, central part of present-day Serbia, and a tiny strip of northern Bosnia, while part of Wallachia known as the Lesser Wallachia was also ceded to the Habsburg Monarchy.
Venice renounced the Peloponnese peninsula, gained by the Treaty of Karlowitz, as well as its last remaining outposts in Crete and islands of Aegina and Tinos, retaining only the Ionian Islands and the cities of Preveza and Arta on the Epirote mainland. In Dalmatia, it made some small advances, taking the areas of Imotski and Vrgorac in the hinterland.

Aftermath

The result of the treaty was the restoration of Habsburg administration over much of the territory of present-day Serbia, which they had temporarily occupied during the Great Turkish War between 1688 and 1690, and the effective establishment of the Kingdom of Serbia as a crown land. Following Passarowitz, a Habsburg crown land known as the Banat of Temeswar was also established.
After another Austro-Turkish war, the 1739 Treaty of Belgrade made the Ottoman Empire regain northern Bosnia, Habsburg Serbia and southern parts of the Banat of Temeswar, and Lesser Wallachia was returned to Wallachia.