Battle of Kassa

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Battle of Kassa" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Battle of Kassa
Part of Great Turkish War
Date October 18, 1685 Location Kassa, Kingdom of Hungary, (today: Košice, Slovakia) Result Holy Roman Empire victory
Belligerents
Holy Roman Empire	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Aeneas de Caprara	Abdi Pasha the Albanian

The Battle of Kassa was fought on October 18, 1685, in the city of Kassa in the Kingdom of Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia), between the armies of the Ottoman Empire and of the Holy Roman Empire.^[1]

The Austrian Commander, Field Marshal Aeneas de Caprara, defeated the Ottoman Army near the city and with this victory regained Habsburg control of which had been lost in 1682 to the Kuruc leader Imre Thököly. Košice at the time was defended by a modern pentagonal fortress (citadel) built by the Habsburgs south of the city in the 1670s.