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The Peace of Vasvár was a treaty between the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire which followed the Battle of Saint Gotthard of August 1, 1664. It held until 1683, when the Turks laid siege to Vienna for the second time.
At the moment of signing the Habsburg morarchy was in a better position then the Ottoman Turks military-wise, the Ottomans having suffered several major defeats. The military success was not capitalised upon. Instead of maintaining initiative and momentum negotiations began, fighting stopped and peace was signed. Factions within the Monarchy insisted on further operations, particularly Croats and Hungarians, mainly because most of their teritorry was in Ottoman hands so they wanted to use the opportunity to reclaim their land. The noble Croatian families Zrinski and Frankopan viewed the treaty as particularly supplicating to the Ottomans, with them actually having to give the territories that'd just been liberated back to the Ottomans as terms of the treaty, some of which belonged to the Zrinski family. This caused internal strife and instability in the Monarchy which would eventually culminate with the rebellion of the two Hungarian noble families and Ferenc Rákóczi I. against the King (Emperor to the German states in the monarchy).
This was the only time the French king, a traditional ally of the Ottomans since king Francis I of France fought against them.
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