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The Treaty of Passarowitz is the peace treaty signed in Požarevac (German Passarowitz,Turkish Pasarofça,Hungarian Pozsarevác), Serbia on July 21, 1718 between the Ottoman Empire on one side and the Austria and Venice on the other.In the years 1714- 1718, the Turks had been successful against Venice in Greece and Crete, but had been defeated at Petrovaradin ( 1716) by the Austrian troops of by Prince Eugene of Savoy.
The treaty reflected the military situation. Turkey lost the Banat of TemesvarTimişoara ( German Temeswar or Temeschburg Hungarian Temesvar Serbo-Croatian TemiSvar Turkish''Tamisvar is a city in western Romania, in the Banat region, Timiş county, population 329,554 in 2000. All of the variants of its name derive from th, northern Serbia (including BelgradeFor other uses see Belgrade (disambiguation Belgrade ( Serbian, Beograd , (population in Belgrade region 1,711,800 by census of 2002) is the capital of Serbia (since 1403) and Serbia and Montenegro (since 2003) and Yugoslavia ( 1918- 2003). The city lies), northern Bosnia and Lesser Walachia ( OlteniaMap of Romania with Oltenia highlighted Oltenia or Lesser Wallachia is a historical province of Romania. It is situated between the Danube, the Carpathian Mountains and the Olt. The latter river is the border between Oltenia and Muntenia or Greater Wallac) to Austria. Venice lost its possessions on the Peloponnesus peninsula and on Crete, gained by the Treaty of Carlowitz to Turkey, retaining only the Ionian Islands and Dalmatia. Belgrade and Lesser Walachia were regained by Turkey in 1739 by the Treaty of Belgrade.
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