The Treaty of Jaworów was a

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signed on 11 June 1675 between the

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and

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in Jaworów,

(today

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, Ukraine). In the treaty, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth promised to aid France against Brandenburg-Prussia, in exchange for French monetary subsidies and support for Polish claims over

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. The French promised to mediate between the

and the

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so that Polish-Lithuanian forces could be diverted from the southern border. The treaty, however, did not have much effect on European politics, as the French diplomacy failed to improve the relations between the Ottomans and the Commonwealth. The 1676 Truce of Żurawno was unfavorable to Poland. France eventually concluded the

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(1679) with

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, which cooled its relations with the

, as Sobieski abandoned his pro-French stance; the Polish-French alliance had fallen apart by 1683 when some of the pro-French faction members were accused of plotting to depose Sobieski, and French ambassador Nicolas-Louis de l'Hospital, Bishop of Beauvais and Marquis of Vitry was forced to leave the country.Red. (Eds.), ''Jan III Sobieski'', p.417 Mounting pressure from

postponed plans for Sobieski's war with Brandenburg, and eventually lead to the creation of the Holy League in 1684, in which Poland and the

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(which included Brandenburg-Prussia) had to ally against the Ottomans (as part of the

Great Turkish War The Great Turkish War () or The Last Crusade, also called in Ottoman sources The Disaster Years (), was a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League (1684), Holy League consisting of the Holy Roman Empire, Polish–Lith ...

, a conflict whose Polish front was known as the Polish–Ottoman War (1683–99)).

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