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Name: transylvania

Type: Cluster

Start: 1571 AD

End: 1711 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Principality of Transylvania (Ottoman Empire)
  • Principality of Transylvania (Habsburg)
  • Principality of Transylvania (Wallachia)
  • Principality of Transylvania
  • Establishment


  • January 1571: In 1570, John II signed the Treaty of Speyer with Ferdinand's successor, Maximilian. John II again renounced his claim as king of Hungary in favor of Maximilian, thus ending the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.
  • March 1571: Upon the death of John II in 1571 the Royal House of Báthory came to power and ruled Transylvania as princes under the Ottomans.
  • Chronology


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    1. Conquests of Selim II


    Expansion during the rule of Selim II in the Ottoman Empire.


    2. Ottoman-Habsburg Wars


    Were a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Domains. The conflicts started with the partition of Hungary between the Ottomans and the Habsburgs after the Battle of Mohács (1526).

    2.1.Long Turkish War

    Was a war between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburgs (along with their respective allies) over the control of Romanian and Hungarian territories.

  • January 1602: Wallachia was in personal union with Transylvania 1600.
  • June 1606: By the Peace of Vienna, Bocskay obtained religious liberty and political autonomy.

  • 2.1.1.Peace of Zsitvatorok

    Was a peace treaty which ended the 15-year Long Turkish War between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy on 11 November 1606.

  • November 1606: The Principality of Transylvania became de facto independent.

  • 2.2.Great Turkish War

    Was a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League consisting of the Holy Roman Empire, Poland-Lithuania, Venice, Russia, and Habsburg Hungary.

    2.2.1.Treaty of Karlowitz

    Was a treaty that concluded the Great Turkish War and the Morean War. The Ottoman Empire suffered major territorial losses.

  • January 1699: Following the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz, Transylvania was formally attached to the Habsburg-controlled Hungary.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1600: The Principality of Transylvania fell under the authority of Wallachia.

  • January 1602: After 1601 the Principality of Transylvania for a short time was under the rule of Rudolf I.

  • January 1684: Following the Battle of Vienna in the same year, the area was ceded to the Principality of Transylvania.

  • April 1711: After the unsettled period of Rákóczi's War of Independence, the Principality of Transylvania was subordinated within the Habsburg Monarchy.

  • Disestablishment


  • April 1711: After the unsettled period of Rákóczi's War of Independence, the Principality of Transylvania was subordinated within the Habsburg Monarchy.
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