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An engraving of a vast battle in a river valley, hills on the left, a walled city with a tall spire in the distance
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The relief of Vienna

The battle on the slopes below the Kahlenberg that broke the Ottoman siege of Vienna on 12 September 1683.

Made by
Anonymous
Made
1694
Technique
Engraving
Credit
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain (CC0).
The event: The siege of Vienna →Source ↗

Seen from the hills of the Vienna Woods, as the relieving army saw it: the city with St Stephen’s spire, the Danube, and the battle filling the valley.

An engraving of a vast battle in a river valley, hills on the left, a walled city with a tall spire in the distance
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