Editing Belgrade (section)

===Ottoman rule and Austrian invasions===
{{See also|History of Ottoman Serbia|Ottoman–Habsburg wars}}
[[File:Belgrade_1684.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.6|Belgrade in 1684]]
Seven decades after the initial siege, on 28 August 1521, the fort was finally captured by [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] with 250,000 Turkish soldiers and over 100 ships. Subsequently, most of the city was razed to the ground and its entire Orthodox Christian population was deported to [[Istanbul]]<ref name="beligradcom-1934"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Serbia |first=RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of |title=Ко су потомци Београђана које је Сулејман Величанствени пре пет векова одвео у Истанбул |url=http://www.rts.rs/page/magazine/ci/story/501/zanimljivosti/4279377/beograd-istambul-sulejman-velicanstveni.html |access-date=4 March 2021 |website=www.rts.rs |archive-date=4 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304093012/https://www.rts.rs/page/magazine/ci/story/501/zanimljivosti/4279377/beograd-istambul-sulejman-velicanstveni.html |url-status=live }}</ref> to an area that has since become known as the [[Belgrade forest]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roughguides.co.uk/website/travel/Destination/content/default.aspx?titleid=104&xid=idh573385336_0211 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909184933/http://www.roughguides.co.uk/website/travel/Destination/content/default.aspx?titleid=104&xid=idh573385336_0211 |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 September 2012 |title=The Rough Guide to Turkey: Belgrade Forest |publisher=Rough Guides |access-date=5 May 2009}}</ref>

Belgrade was made the seat of the [[Pashalik of Belgrade]] (also known as the Sanjak of Smederevo), and quickly became the second largest Ottoman town in Europe at over 100,000 people, surpassed only by [[Constantinople]].<ref name="belgradenetcom"/> Ottoman rule introduced [[Ottoman architecture]], including numerous mosques, and the city was resurrected—now by [[Oriental]] influences.<ref name="beogradrs-3">{{cite web |url=http://www.beograd.rs/cms/view.php?id=201251 |title=History (Turkish and Austrian Rule) |publisher=Beograd.rs |access-date=10 July 2007 |archive-date=24 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924061435/http://www.beograd.rs/cms/view.php?id=201251 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1594, a major [[Banat Uprising|Serb rebellion]] was crushed by the Ottomans. In retribution, [[Grand vizier|Grand Vizier]] [[Sinan Pasha]] ordered the [[relic]]s of [[Saint Sava]] to be publicly torched on the [[Vračar plateau]]; in the 20th century, the [[church of Saint Sava]] was built to commemorate this event.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://balkanologie.revues.org/index494.html?file=1 |title=Nationalism In Construction: The Memorial Church of St. Sava on Vračar Hill In Belgrade |last=Aleksov |first=Bojan |journal=Balkanologie |volume=VII |issue=47 |pages=52–53 |date=December 2003 |access-date=15 September 2010 |archive-date=23 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723063232/http://balkanologie.revues.org/index494.html?file=1 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Occupied by the [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburgs]] three times ([[Siege of Belgrade (1688)|1688–1690]], [[Kingdom of Serbia (1718–39)|1717–1739]], [[Siege of Belgrade (1789)|1789–1791]]), headed by the [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Princes]] [[Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria|Maximilian of Bavaria]] and [[Prince Eugene of Savoy|Eugene of Savoy]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://razgledanje.tripod.com/tvrdjava/english.htm |title=Belgrade Fortress: History |publisher=Razgledanje.tripod.com |date=23 August 2004 |access-date=7 July 2009 |archive-date=10 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910052943/http://razgledanje.tripod.com/tvrdjava/english.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[field marshal]] [[Baron Ernst Gideon von Laudon]], respectively, Belgrade was quickly recaptured by the Ottomans and substantially razed each time.<ref name="beogradrs-3" /> During this period, the city was affected by the two [[Great Serbian Migrations]], in which hundreds of thousands of Serbs, led by two [[Serbian Patriarchs]], retreated together with the Austrian soldiers into the Habsburg Empire, settling in today's [[Vojvodina]] and [[Slavonia]].<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.suc.org/culture/library/Oci/tajne-poruke-svetoga-save-16-03-03.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023044533/http://www.serbianunity.net/culture/library/Oci/tajne-poruke-svetoga-save-16-03-03.html |archive-date=23 October 2007 |title=Oči u oči |chapter=Tajne poruke svetog Save" Svetosavska crkva i velika seoba Srba 1690. godine |author-link=Dejan Medaković |publisher=BIGZ (online reprint by Serbian Unity Congress library) |location=Belgrade |isbn=978-86-13-00903-0 |last=Medaković |first=Dejan |access-date=17 May 2007 |year=1990 |url-status=dead}}</ref>