To: knighthawk
Hooray for Austria.
Vienna, in Austria, is where invading muslim hordes were turned back hundreds of years ago, saving much of Europe.
To: Mount Athos
Hooray for Austria.
Vienna, in Austria, is where invading muslim hordes were turned back hundreds of years ago, saving much of Europe.
14 posted on
10/03/2005 9:54:14 AM PDT by
starfish923
(It's never right to do wrong. Socrates)
To: Mount Athos
Yeah, but Austria also gave us Hitler.
To: Mount Athos
Two separate failed sieges of Vienna checked Turkish expanson: 1539 and 1683. The last one was the signal of the end of the Ottoman menace to eastern Europe. The encircling army was surprised by a relieving force. A sally by the city's defenders complicated the problem and the beseiging force disintegrated.
Within a few decades, Peter the Great was expanding against Turkey and western powers like England were trying to find ways to prop them up as a buffer against Russia.
121 posted on
10/07/2005 5:54:40 PM PDT by
VadeRetro
(I'll have a few sleepless nights after I send you over, sure! But it'll pass.)
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