Miklós Erdődy de Monyorókerék et Monoszló (or ) was a Croatia

Croatia

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Ban (title)

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 but his nationality was Hungarian

Hungary

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. He was a member of the Erdődy

Erdody

Erdődy is the name of a Hungarian noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary . The Habsburg Monarchy granted them the title Graf / Gräfin....

 noble family.

He succeeded Petar Zrinski

Petar Zrinski

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 as ban in 1671. In 1684 he began his most notable undertaking, driving Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

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 forces out of Slavonia

Slavonia

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. Virovitica was freed in 1684. In 1688 the city of Kostajnica

Kostajnica

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 was liberated, and Slavonski Brod

Slavonski Brod

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 was liberated by 1691.

Erdődy died in 1693. However, his work was carried on by his successor Adam Baćan. The wars against the Ottoman Empire throughout the region eventually led to the Treaty of Karlowitz

Treaty of Karlowitz

The Treaty of Karlowitz was signed on 26 January 1699 in Sremski Karlovci , concluding the Austro-Ottoman War of 1683–1697 in which the Ottoman side had been defeated at the Battle of Zenta...

in 1699.