Battle of Banja Luka
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| Battle of Banja Luka | |||||||
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| Part of Austro-Russian–Turkish War (1735–39) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Ottoman Empire |
 Austria | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha |
Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen[1] Maximilian Ulysses Browne | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 10,000 | 26,500 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
The Battle of Banja Luka (Template:Lang-tr, Template:Lang-bs was a battle in which the Ottoman Empire, led by Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha, defeated the Holy Roman Empire. It took place on 4 August 1737 near the Bosnian town of Banja Luka. The Bosnian population was aware that the Austrian forces would invade Bosnia during the war. That's why Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha called a meeting in Travnik with the Bosnian captains to plan the defense. The Ottoman forces where planning the defense without the help of Istanbul..[2]
Notes
- ^ E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936, Ed. M. Th. Houtsma and A. J. Wensinck, (BRILL, 1993), 36.
- ^ "The Battle of Banja Luka (Bosnian)". Retrieved 4 August 2015.
Further reading
- Mustafa Imamović, Osnove upravno-političkog razvitka i državnopravnog položaja Bosne i Hercegovine
External links
- Austro-Turkish War 1737-9, 21 September 2009
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