page_title: Osman Aga of Temesvar
section_title: Austrian-Ottoman War and later life
hierarchical_section_title: Osman Aga of Temesvar / Life / Austrian-Ottoman War and later life
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Belagerung von Belgrad, Kupferstich, 16. August 1717,English: Siege of Belgrade, engraving, 1717
context_page_description: Osman Ağa of Temeşvar was an Ottoman army officer and one of the few Turkish-language autobiographers of the era. More important than that, he was a prisoner of war and he wrote mostly about his adventures in Habsburg Austria which makes the autobiography the sole Ottoman Turkish example of its kind. He was a historian and travel writer.
context_section_description: In Temesvár, with the help of the German he had learned during his servitude, he became the official dragoman (translator) and served in several diplomatic missions to Austria. However his comfortable days were over at the outbreak of a new war between the Ottoman Empire and Austria in 1715. This time Eugene Savoy of Austria captured Temesvár in 1716. Osman Aga fled to Belgrade (modern Serbia). But Belgrade shared the same fate in 1717. Shortly before the final assault of the Austrians on Belgrade, the Austrians were able to explode the ammunition dump of the fort on 14 August 1717 resulting in the death of some 3,000 people. Most of Osman's family members were among the 3,000. After the loss of Belgrade he served in Vidin (in modern Bulgaria) and then came to Istanbul where he continued his civil service as dragoman.
caption: Austrian forces led by Eugene of Savoy besiege Belgrade in the year 1717, during the Austro-Turkish War of 1716-18.
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