Carlovitz

or Karlowitz, Peace of, a peace concluded January 26, 1699, between Austria, Poland, Venice, Russia, and Turkey, with the good offices of England and the Netherlands. Austria received large accessions of territory in Transylvania and Hungary; Russia gained Azov on the Black Sea.

The treaty of Carlovitz is memorable, not only on account of the magnitude of the territorial change which it ratified; not only because it marks the period when men ceased to dread the Ottoman Empire as an aggressive power; but, also, because it was then that the Porte and Russia took part, for the first time, in a general European Congress; and because, by admitting to that Congress the representatives of England and Holland, neither of which states was a party to the war, both the Sultan and the Czar thus admitted the principle of intervention of the European powers, one with another, for the sake of the general good.-Creasy, History of the Ottoman Turks.