Siege of Buda (1686)

Siege of Buda (1686)
	Part of the Great Turkish War
	; The recapture of Buda Castle, 1686
Date	18 June – 9 September 1686
Location	Buda, Ottoman Hungary (now part of Budapest, Hungary)47°30′10″N 19°01′54″E / 47.502800°N 19.031700°E
Result	Holy League victory
Belligerents
Holy League	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine; Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden; Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (WIA); Manuel López de Zúñiga y Sarmiento de Silva †	Abdurrahman Abdi Arnavut Pasha †; Sarı Süleyman Paşa; Pasha of Temeşvar; Pasha of İstolni Belgrad; Pasha of Osijek
Strength
65,000–100,000	Garrison: under 7,000 (including 3,000 Janissaries, 1,000 cavalry, and civilians); Relief army: ~40,000;
Casualties and losses
~20,000	~3,000 killed; ~6,000 captured (including civilians);

The siege of Buda (1686) (Hungarian: Buda visszafoglalása, lit. 'Recapture of Buda') was a military engagement during the Great Turkish War, in which forces of the Holy League, led by the Habsburg Monarchy, recaptured the fortified city of Buda (now part of modern-day Budapest) from the Ottoman Empire. The siege took place between 18 June and 9 September 1686, ending nearly 150 years of Ottoman control over the former Hungarian capital.

The campaign followed the failed Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683 and was part of a broader counteroffensive launched by the Holy League. The multinational Christian coalition fielded an army of up to 100,000 men, while the Ottoman defenders, under Abdurrahman Abdi Arnavut Pasha, resisted for over two months before the city was stormed. The fall of Buda paved the way for Habsburg consolidation over central Hungary and led to the establishment of hereditary Habsburg monarchy in the Kingdom of Hungary.