Treaty of Passarowitz

Treaty of Passarowitz
	The central Balkans in 1718. Territories passed from the Turks to the Habsburg monarchy were: Banat of Temeswar Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia Northern Bosnia Territory passed from Wallachia to the Habsburg Monarchy: Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia)
Context	Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–18); Austro-Turkish War (1716–18);
Signed	21 July 1718
Location	Passarowitz, Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia (now Požarevac, Serbia)
Mediators	Kingdom of Great Britain; United Provinces;
Parties	Ottoman Empire; Holy Roman Empire; Republic of Venice;

The Treaty of Passarowitz, or Treaty of Požarevac, was the peace treaty signed in Požarevac (Serbian Cyrillic: Пожаревац, German: Passarowitz), a town that was in the Ottoman Empire but is now in Serbia, on 21 July 1718 between the Ottoman Empire and Austria of the Habsburg monarchy and the Republic of Venice.

The treaty saw the cession of several Ottoman territories to the Habsburgs, and it was regarded in its time as an extraordinary success and source of pride in Vienna.

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