The Treaty of Vienna (also known as the Peace of Vienna) was signed on 23 June 1606 between
Stephen Bocskay
Stephen Bocskai or Bocskay ( hu, Bocskai István; 1 January 155729 December 1606) was Prince of Transylvania and Hungary from 1605 to 1606. He was born to a Hungarian noble family. His father's estates were located in the eastern regions of th ...
,
Prince of Transylvania, and
Archduke Rudolph. Based on the terms of the treaty, all constitutional and religious rights and privileges were granted to the Hungarians in both
Transylvania
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and
Royal Hungary
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. In
Sopron, for instance, the agreement recognized the autocracy of Hungarian
Lutherans
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; in Transylvania, the
Calvinists
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gained religious tolerance. The accord also recognized Bocskay as the
Prince of Transylvania and guaranteed the right of Transylvanians to elect their own independent princes in the future.
Due to its importance for the Calvinists in Hungary and Transylvania, the first sentences of the treaty and its signing are depicted on the
Reformation Wall
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in
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, a monument that honours important figures of the
Protestant Reformation
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, next to the statue of Stephen Bocskay.
Since
Stephen Bocskay
Stephen Bocskai or Bocskay ( hu, Bocskai István; 1 January 155729 December 1606) was Prince of Transylvania and Hungary from 1605 to 1606. He was born to a Hungarian noble family. His father's estates were located in the eastern regions of th ...
had sought the support of the
Ottoman Empire
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, the Treaty of Vienna was followed by the
Peace of Zsitvatorok
The Peace of Zsitvatorok (or Treaty of Sitvatorok) was a peace treaty which ended the 15-year Long Turkish War between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy on 11 November 1606. The treaty was part of a system of peace treaties which put ...
between Sultan
Ahmed I
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and Archduke
Matthias of Austria (11 November 1606).
See also
*
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Before 1200 CE
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*
Bocskai Uprising
*
Peace of Zsitvatorok
The Peace of Zsitvatorok (or Treaty of Sitvatorok) was a peace treaty which ended the 15-year Long Turkish War between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy on 11 November 1606. The treaty was part of a system of peace treaties which put ...
References
* Nemes Elek: Az 1606-ki bécsi békekötés létrejöttének története. ''Erdélyi Múzeum,'' VI. évf. 1. sz. (1879. jan. 1.)
istory of making the Treaty of Vienna in 1606
* Az 1606. évi bécsi és zsitvatoroki béke. Bocskay halála
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* A bécsi és zsitvatoroki béke[History of Treaty of Vienna and Treaty of Zitvatorok] . In ''A magyar nemzet története[History of the Hungarian nation] .'' Szerk. Szilágyi Sándor. Budapest: Arcanum. 2002.
External links
The Columbia Encyclopedia - MatthiasKornél Bárdos: Andreas Rauch in Sopron
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