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The Holy League (Latin: Sacra Ligua) of 1684 was a coalition of European nations formed during the Great Turkish War. Born out of the Treaty of Warsaw, it was founded as a means to prevent further Ottoman expansion into Europe.
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A new Holy League was initiated by Pope Innocent XI and...
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Holy League (1571), an alliance of major Catholic maritime...
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Peter I. In Peter I: The Azov campaigns (1695–96) …regency, to the anti-Turkish “Holy League” of 1684 (Austria, Poland, and Venice); on the other hand, they were intended to secure the southern frontier against Tatar raids, as well as to approach the Black Sea. The first campaign ended in failure (1695), but this did not discourage Peter: he…
The Holy League (Latin: Sacra Ligua) of 1684 was a coalition of European nations formed during the Great Turkish War. Born out of the Treaty of Warsaw, it was founded as a means to prevent further Ottoman expansion into Europe.
Holy League, association of Roman Catholics during the French Wars of Religion of the late 16th century; it was first organized in 1576 under the leadership of Henri I de Lorraine, 3 e duc de Guise, to oppose concessions granted to the Protestants ( Huguenots) by King Henry III.
Holy League, either of two European leagues sponsored by the papacy in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, formed for the purpose of protecting Italy from threatened French domination. The first was the League of 1495 between Pope Alexander VI, the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian I, Aragon’s
