!!!Zsitvatorok

Zsitvatorok, Peace of (also Zsitvatoeroek, Sitvatoeroek, 
Szitvatoeroek), November 11, 1606, village of Žitva at the 
confluence of the Stara Žitava stream and the River Danube in the 
vicinity of Marcelova, east of Komárno, Slovakia; ended the  
Turkish War which had lasted since 1593; the sultan of the Ottoman 
empire for the first time recognised the Emperor as equal and 
refrained from demanding the annual "honorary gift" 
(tribute) which had been customary since 1547 against a single payment 
of 200,000 gulden.

!Literature
J. P. Niederkorn, Die europaeischen Maechte und der 
"Lange Tuerkenkrieg" Rudolfs II., Archiv fuer 
oesterreichische Geschichte 135, 1993.


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