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The Hello, this is a history of Europe Key Battles,

The Siege of Vienna, 1683, Part 2 of 3.

In the first part I talked about Austria, the Habsburgs and Emperor Leopold the first.

Now I turned to the Ottoman Empire. As the Thirty Years' War, due to a close in Central Europe, the court of the Ottoman Empire was in turmoil.

A series of weak sultans in Constantinople had failed to give leadership and the situation got even worse in the reign of Ibrahim the Mad, who it was clear to all was completely incapable of rule.

A rise in the price of food and other goods caused unrest and an angry mob tore to pieces, a grand vizier who had only recently been given the job.

In the year 1648, shortly after the failure of one coup, another was successful, and Ibrahim was strangled to death,

so that a six-year-old son, Mehmet could be installed as the new Sultan.

Political turbulence continued in the first eight years of Mehmet the fourth strain,

which was accompanied by reverses and new threats abroad.

A siege of Kandia, the capital of Crete, which began in 1648, made it clear that

Turks no longer had command of the sea. After the initial Turkish landing on the islands,

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