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Topic: Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War
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Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War

Years: 1493 - 1593

The Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War is the name for a sequence of conflicts, mostly of relatively low-intensity, ("Small War", Croatian: Mali rat) between the Ottoman Empire and the medieval Kingdom of Croatia (ruled by the Jagiellon and Zápolya dynasties), and the later Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia.Pope Leo X calls Croatia the Antemurale Christianitatis in 1519, given that Croatian soldiers have made significant contributions to the struggle against the Turks.

The advancement of the Ottoman Empire in Europe is stopped in 1593 on Croatian soil (Battle of Sisak), which could be in this sense regarded as a historical gate of European civilization.

Nevertheless the Muslim Ottoman Empire occupies parts of Croatia from the sixteenh to the end of the seventeenth century.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)