Battle of Banja Luka

Battle of Banja Luka
Part of Austro-Russian–Turkish War (1735–39)
Date 4 August 1737 Location Banja Luka, Bosnia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) Result Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Austria
Commanders and leaders
Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha	Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen[1] Maximilian Ulysses Browne
Strength
10,000	26,500
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown

The Battle of Banja Luka (Turkish: Banaluka Savaşı, Bosnian: Banjalučki boj) was a battle in which the Ottoman Empire, led by Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha, defeated the Holy Roman Empire. It took place on 4 August 1737 near the Bosnian town of Banja Luka. The Bosnian population was aware that the Austrian forces would invade Bosnia during the war. That's why Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha called a meeting in Travnik with the Bosnian captains to plan the defense. The Ottoman forces where planning the defense without the help of Istanbul..^[2]

Notes

1. E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936, Ed. M. Th. Houtsma and A. J. Wensinck, (BRILL, 1993), 36.
2. "The Battle of Banja Luka (Bosnian)". Archived from the original on 7 August 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2015.

Further reading

• Mustafa Imamović, Osnove upravno-političkog razvitka i državnopravnog položaja Bosne i Hercegovine

External links

• Austro-Turkish War 1737-9, 21 September 2009