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E shall now advert to the affairs of the Austrian dominions and of the eastern nations of Europe.

The comparative feebleness into which the Turkish Empire was sunk, as well as its war with Venice, which had been going on since 1645, had for many years relieved Austria from all apprehension of attack from that quarter; but in 1656 the appointment of Mahomet Koprili as Grand Vizier infused more vigour into the counsels of the Porte. The youthful Sultan, Mahomet IV., and the Sultana Valide, allowed Kiiprili an almost unlimited power; and though that remarkable man was more than seventy years old, and had not performed during his long life any memorable action, yet he discharged his high office during the five years which he held it with distinguished ability and success, and at his death transmitted his power to his son. Under the adminis tration of Mahomet Koprili, the Turks began again to inter fere in the afiairs of Transylvania The Voyvode, George Ragotski II., their tributary, having shown symptoms of insubordination, the Porte resolved to set up Barcsai, a creature of its own, in his place, and to increase the yearly tribute from ducats to Ragotski, after resist ing a year or two, was defeated by the Turks in a battle near Klausenburg, in May, 1660, and received a wound of which he died. In the following August the Turks captured Gross wardein, one of the strongest fortresses on the borders of Hungary and Transylvania.

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