The
Treaty of Belgrade was the
peace treatyA peace treaty is an agreement between two or more hostile parties, usually countries or governments, that formally ends a state of war between the parties...
signed on September 18, 1739 in
BelgradeBelgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia (today Republic of Serbia), by the
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on one side and the
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on the other.
This treaty ended the hostilities of the two-year Austro-Turkish War, 1737-1739, in which the Habsburgs joined Imperial Russia in its fight against the Ottomans. With the Treaty of Belgrade, the Habsburgs ceded Kingdom of Serbia with Belgrade, southern part of the
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and northern Bosnia to the Ottomans, and
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, gained by the
Treaty of PassarowitzThe Treaty of Passarowitz or Treaty of Požarevac was the peace treaty signed in Požarevac , a town in Ottoman Empire , on 21 July 1718 between the Ottoman Empire on one side and the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria and the Republic of Venice on the other.During the years 1714-1718, the Ottomans had...
in 1718, to
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(an Ottoman subject), and set the demarcation line to the rivers Sava and
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. The Habsburg withdrawal forced Russia to accept peace at the
Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739Russo–Turkish War of 1735–1739, a war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, caused by intensified contradictions over the results of the War of the Polish Succession of 1733–1735 and endless raids by the Crimean Tatars...
with the Treaty of Niš, whereby it was allowed to build a port at
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, gaining a foothold on the
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.
The Treaty of Belgrade has effectively ended the Kingdom of Serbia which had existed since 1718. The Kingdom of Serbia would await the next Habsburg-Ottoman war to be temporarily reestablished in 1788 with the help of Koča Anđelković.
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