Treaty of Belgrade
The
Treaty of Belgrade was the peace treaty signed on
September 18,
1739 in
Belgrade,
Serbia by the
Ottoman Empire on one side and the
Austria on the other. This ended the hostilities of the two-year Austro-Ottoman war, when Austria joined
Russia in their raid against the Ottoman Empire. With the Treaty of Belgrade, Austria ceded Serbia and Belgrade, gained by the
Treaty of Passarowitz in
1718 to Turkey and set the demarcation line to the rivers
Sava and
Danube. The Austrian withdrawal forced Russia also to accept peace with
Treaty of Nissa, by which Russia gave up the
Crimea and
Moldavia, but was still allowed to build a port at
Azov, again gaining a foothold on the
Black Sea.