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After recapturing Yerevan (1635) and Baghdad (1639), the Ottoman Empire was marked by the "Koprulu Era" (1656–1703), whose military success led to control of Transylvania, Crete (1669), and southern Ukraine (1676). However this period of renewed assertiveness came to a calamitous end in 1683 when Koprulu's Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha led a huge army to attempt a second Ottoman siege of Vienna in the Great Turkish War of 1683–1687. When the final Turkish assault was fatally delayed, the Ottoman forces were swept away by allied Habsburg, German and Polish forces spearheaded by the Polish king Jan 111 Sobieski at the 1683 Battle of Vienna.

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The Ottoman Empire expanded its borders to the gates of Vienna, Italy.

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