Editing Battle of Vienna (section)

==Atrocities==

During the Siege of Vienna, the Ottoman troops pillaged the surrounding countryside and took many surviving civilians into [[slavery in the Ottoman Empire]]. In the village of Perchtoldsdorf outside of Vienna, the Ottomans massacred the men and enslaved the women and children. 
<ref>Walters, E. N. (1997). My Memories of the Nimmerrichter-Barilitsch Family. USA: Gateway Press. XVII. 134</ref><ref>Crankshaw, E. (1971). The Habsburgs: portrait of a dynasty. Storbritannien: Viking Press. p136</ref>
The villagers of Perchtoldsdorf had resisted the invasion and barricaded themselves in a church fortress. The Ottomans promised they would safeguard the villagers’ lives and property in exchange for their capitulation. Upon surrendering, however, the Ottomans gathered the men of the village in the market square, took their weapons, and massacred them; they captured the women and children and, as [[kafir]] war prisoners, took them away as slaves.<ref>Schimmer, Karl August (1879). The sieges of Vienna by the Turks. London : J. Murray. Contributor University of California Libraries. p. 97-98</ref> 

Normally, the Ottomans killed adult men and preferred to enslave women and children, but men were enslaved as well. In total, 57,220 people were kidnapped and taken away as slaves during the Ottoman pillage of the Austrian and Hungarian border zone in 1683; 
6,000 men, 11,215 married women, 14,922 unmarried women under the age of 26 (of which 204 were noblewomen); and 26,093 children.<ref>Schimmer, Karl August (1879). The sieges of Vienna by the Turks. London : J. Murray. Contributor University of California Libraries. p. 172</ref>