Siege of Pécs

{{Short description|1686 battle in Pécs in present-day Hungary}}

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|caption=The castle of Pécs

|conflict=Siege of Pécs

|partof=Great Turkish War

|date=14–22 October 1686

|place=Pécs, Ottoman Empire

|result=Holy Roman Empire victory

|combatant1={{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}

|combatant2=24px Ottoman Empire

|commander1=Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden

|commander2= Abdi Pasha the Albanian

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{{Campaignbox Great Turkish War}}

The siege of Pécs was fought from 14 to 22 October 1686, in the city of Pécs in southwestern Hungary, between the armies of the Ottoman Empire and of the Holy Roman Empire.

After the castle of Buda was wrested from Ottoman rule in 1686, the Austrian army advanced to capture Pécs. The Austrian advance guard broke into the city and pillaged it, the Ottomans saw that they could not hold the city, so they burnt it and withdrew into the castle. The army led by Louis of Baden occupied the city on 14 October, and destroyed the aqueduct leading to the castle. The Ottomans had no other choice but to surrender, which they did on 22 October. The siege devastated the previously prosperous region, and the area was depopulated by the peasants who fled from the Austrian soldiers.{{cite web|url=http://www.memo.fr/en/article.aspx?ID=REG_HON_PEC_MOD_002|title=After the victory against Turkish|accessdate=19 July 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928021337/http://www.memo.fr/en/article.aspx?ID=REG_HON_PEC_MOD_002|archivedate=28 September 2011|df=dmy-all}}