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Name: Principality of Wallachia (Ottoman Empire)

Type: Polity

Start: 1416 AD

End: 1828 AD

Nation: wallachia

Parent: turkey

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Principality of Wallachia (Ottoman Empire)

This article is about the specific polity Principality of Wallachia (Ottoman Empire) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Wallachia was invaded in 1415 and forced to become an Ottoman vassal.

Establishment

January 1416: In 1415, Mehmed I, the Ottoman Sultan, conquered Wallachia and made it a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire.

Chronology

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1. Wars of Mehmed II

Wars during the rule of Mehmed II in the Ottoman Sultanate.

January 1463: The Ottomans appointed Vlad's brother Radu as a vassal ruler of Wallachia.

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.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.

2.1.1.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.

2.2.Austro-Russian-Turkish War (1735-39)

Was a war mainly between Russia and the Ottoman Empire.

August 1737: A small army corps under the command of General George Olivier Wallis occupied a part of Wallachia.

2.2.1.Treaty of Belgrade

Was a peace treaty signed on September 18, 1739 in Belgrade, Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia (today Serbia), by the Ottoman Empire on one side and the Habsburg Monarchy on the other, that ended the Austro-Turkish War (1737-39).

September 1739: The Treaty of Belgrade, known as the Belgrade peace was the peace treaty signed on September 18, 1739 in Belgrade, Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia (today Serbia), by the Ottoman Empire on one side and the Habsburg Monarchy on the other, that ended the Austro-Turkish War (1737-39).

3. Austro-Turkish War (1716-1718)

Was a war between the Habsburg Domains and the Ottoman Empire.

3.1.Treaty of Passarowitz

Was the treaty that ended the Austro-Turkish War (1716-1718).

July 1718: Part of Wallachia (an autonomous Ottoman vassal) known as the Lesser Wallachia (Oltenia) was also ceded to the Habsburg Monarchy.

4. Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774)

Was a war between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. The Russian Empire was victorious and ceded territories in Ukraine to Russia. The Crimean Khanate became a Russian protectorate.

4.1.Russian invasion (Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774)

Was the Russian invasion of the Ottoman Empire during the Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774).

November 1769: The Russians continued the advance south into Wallachia, occupying its capital Bucharest.

4.2.Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca

Was the treaty that ended the Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774). The Ottomans ceded territories in modern-day Ukraine to Russia, and the Crimean Khanate became a Russian protectorate.

July 1774: After the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca forced the Ottoman Empire to leave the Crimean Khanate, the Russian army left the other regions it had occupied.

5. Russo-Turkish War (1787-1792)

Was an unsuccessful attempt by the Ottoman Empire to regain lands lost to the Russian Empire in the course of the previous Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774).

September 1789: Russian troops drove the Ottomans away from near the Râmnicul Sărat river

5.1.Treaty of Jassy

Was the treaty that ended the Russo-Turkish War (1787-1792).

January 1792: The Treaty of Jassy was signed on 9 January 1792 by the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, recognizing Russia's 1783 annexation of the Crimean Khanate. Yedisan (Odessa and Ochakov) was also ceded to Russia.

6. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

6.1.War of the Fourth Coalition

Was a war between the French Empire and a coalition of European monarchies, mainly Prussia and Russia.

6.1.1.Polish, Russian and Swedish campaigns (War of the Fourth Coalition)

Was the theatre of war in Poland, Russia and Sweden during the War of the Fourth Coalition.

January 1807: In order to safeguard the Russian border against a possible French attack, a 40,000-strong Russian contingent advanced into Moldavia and Wallachia.

6.1.2.Peace of Tilsit

Were a series of treaties that ended the War of the Fourth Coalition.

July 1807: The Treaties of Tilsit were two agreements signed by Napoleon I of France in the town of Tilsit in July 1807 in the aftermath of his victory at Friedland. The first was signed on 7 July, between Emperor Alexander I of Russia and Napoleon I of France. The Russian tsar agreed to evacuate Wallachia and Moldavia.

7. Russo-Turkish War (1806-1812)

Was a war between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

May 1810: The garrison of Silistra, led by Ottoman military commander Ahmed Pasha, surrendered to the Russian forces in 1810 during the Russo-Turkish War. The occupation of Silistra by Russia marked a significant turning point in the conflict.

September 1810: The fortress of Rousse (or Rustchuk) fell to the Russians.

8. Russo-Turkish War (1828-29)

Was a war between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. War broke out after the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II closed the Dardanelles to Russian ships because Russia had supported the revolutionaries of the Greek War of Independency.

8.1.Balkan front of the Russo-Turkish War (1828-29)

Was the Balkan theatre of the Russo-Turkish War (1828-1829).

June 1828: In April and May 1828, the Russian commander-in-chief, Prince Peter Wittgenstein, led Russian forces into the Romanian Principates of Wallachia and Moldavia as part of the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829. The territories were placed under Russian military occupation.

9. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1418: Ottoman sultan Mehmed I took control of Turnu Măgurele and Giurgiu.

January 1463: Vlad the Impaler who with Ottoman help had become the Ottoman vassal ruler of Wallachia, refused to pay tribute after some years and invaded Ottoman territory in northern Bulgaria. At that point Mehmed, with the main Ottoman army, was on the Trebizond campaign in Asia. When Mehmed returned from his Trebizond campaign he led a campaign against Wallachia. Vlad fled after some resistance to Hungary. Mehmed first made Wallachia an Ottoman eyalet.