In the 1970s, the Romanian historical blockbuster "Mihayi the Warrior" was wonderful.
The border of the Ottoman Empire was the Carpathian Mountains, that is, the Carpathian Mountains were the border between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary, that is, the boundary between Muslims and Christendom.
To the south of the Carpathian Mountains are Wallachia, and to the east, is Moldova, two autonomous principalities located within the Ottoman Empire.
To the north and west of the Carpathian Mountains is Terrasivania, an autonomous principality located within the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary.
Carpathians
The Duchy of Wallachia, ruled in turn by two major local families, one of whom, Mihayi, borrowed huge sums of money in 1593 to bribe High Turkish officials such as Sinan Pasha, so that Sultan Murad III, deposed and ordered the hanging of the Wallachian prince of another large family, and Mikhayi was able to succeed him as prince.
Murad III, from 1546 to 1595, lived for more than fifty years, seven of his brothers, and after he succeeded to the throne, according to the custom of the Ottoman Empire, he hanged the remaining six brothers to ensure that the throne was not lost.
Murad III
He was in the harem, under the influence of two women, Empress Nuerba, who was a woman from the Republic of Venice, the mother of Murad III, and the other was Empress Xefiye, who was also a woman from the Republic of Venice, the daughter of the Doge of Corfu in Greece, who was snatched by Turkish pirates on her way from the Venetian mainland to Corfu, and then dedicated to Sultan, and became empress.
Nuerba kept the Ottoman Empire friendly with the Republic of Venice, and she also maintained correspondence with The Queen Consort Caterine Medici of France. Eventually, a rival of the Venetian Republic, the Republic of Genoa, sent spies to poison her.
Empress Nuerba
Murad III succeeded to the throne as Sultan in 1574, reigned for more than twenty years, held a high position of power, during his reign, successively launched attacks on Safagas persia, successively captured the four provinces of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Tabriz, and in 1590, Abbas I, the ruler of Safir Persia, was forced to seek peace with the Ottoman Empire in order to concentrate his forces against the Uzbeks of the Bukhara Khanate.
Murad III reigned for more than twenty years, the empire continued to expand, he died in 1595 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Mehmed III.
Mehmed III, from 1566 to 1603, lived forty-seven years, reigned for more than ten years, his brothers seventeen, he succeeded to the throne, according to the Ottoman Empire's custom, the remaining sixteen brothers, all hanged, in order to avoid the trouble, consolidate the throne.
The harem was in the hands of Sephiroth.
Muhammad III
After succeeding to the throne as prince of the Wallachian principality of the empire, Mihayi did not behave properly, burned all the fires of the Turkish merchants who had lent him money, and refused to pay tribute to the Ottoman Sultan. After the death of the elder Sultan, he simply announced his secession from the Ottoman Empire and defected to the Holy Roman Empire.
In August 1595, the new lord Mehmed III ordered an army to be sent to recruit 180,000 Ottoman troops such as Sinan Pasha, and 16,000 Warriors such as Mikhail and other Wallachian troops set up an ambush to meet the battle. The Wallachians, taking advantage of the swamps there, defeated the Ottoman army with fewer victories.
Enraged, Muhammad III waged successive wars against the Holy Roman Empire for more than a decade from 1596 to 1605.
The most famous of these was the Battle of Kresz in 1596.
The Ottoman Empire's four-sided attack in the previous decades led to the formation of a grand anti-Turkish alliance of Forces including Austria, Spain, Hungary, Croatia, Wallachia, Trasivania, and Ukrainian Cossacks. In order to fight against the Habsburgs, France did not hesitate to ally with the pagan Ottoman Empire, and the Polish king Sigismund III was also anti-Habsburg.
The cause of the battle was that the 40,000-strong Christian army invaded central Hungary occupied by the Ottoman Empire, so the new lord Mehmed III, with his own conquest, led an Ottoman army of 80,000 people, carrying a hundred artillery pieces, and went north to meet the battle.
The Ottoman Empire, with its sheer size, threatened European countries, but with the rapid development of european financial reforms, European countries became able to recruit troops on a large scale, so they could already fight the Ottomans.
The massive Ottoman Empire
In October of that year, the Battle broke out in the area around the village of Kresz in the Kingdom of Hungary. The main force of the Ottoman army was thirty thousand Guards infantry and cavalry, led by Sultan Mehmed III and Ibrahim Pasha, while the Christian coalition army consisted of ten thousand Austrian infantry, four thousand German mercenary infantry, three thousand German cavalry, thirteen thousand Hungarian light cavalry, and ten thousand Terrasivanian troops. Led by Archduke Maximulion III of Austria and Prince Sigismund Barthori of Trasibalia.
As a result of the battle, the Ottoman army won, but due to heavy casualties, it was unable to extend the results.
The Allies suffered more than 10,000 casualties, while the Ottoman army suffered more casualties than the Allies.
In 1603, Mehmed III died and was succeeded by his eldest son, Ahmed I.
In 1606, the two sides signed the Peace of Vienna, and Wallachia and Moldova were restored to the Ottoman Empire.
The Habsburgs' Austria and Spain, having to deal with the Dutch rebellion and the impending Thirty Years' War, temporarily abandoned their counterattack against the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire, on the other hand, also postponed its westward expansion because of the urgent need to quell civil unrest and to confront Safir Persia on the eastern front. Until the end of the seventeenth century, the Habsburgs re-emerged, they will completely recover the lost territory of Hungary, completely unify Hungary, and complete the great counterattack against the Ottoman Empire.