Siege of Buda (1686)

The Morean war (Italian: Guerra di Morea), also known as the Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War, was fought between 1684–1699 as part of the wider conflict known as the "Great Turkish War", between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. Military operations ranged from Dalmatia to the Aegean Sea, but the war's major campaign was the Venetian conquest of the Morea (Peloponnese) peninsula in southern Greece.

On the Venetian side, the war was fought to avenge the loss of Crete in the Cretan War (1645–1669). It happened while the Ottomans were entangled in their northern struggle against the Habsburgs – beginning with the failed Ottoman attempt to conquer Vienna and ending with the Habsburgs gaining Buda and the whole of Hungary, leaving the Ottoman Empire unable to concentrate its forces against the Venetians. As such, the Morean War was the only Ottoman–Venetian conflict from which Venice emerged victorious, gaining significant territory. Venice's expansionist revival would be short-lived, as its gains would be reversed by the Ottomans in 1718.

The Carmelite Monastery of Buda (Hungarian: Karmelita or Karmelita kolostor) is a building in the Castle Quarter of Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, that serves as the seat of the Prime Minister of Hungary. It was formerly a Carmelite Catholic monastery and theatre.

The Carmelite Order built the monastery on a parcel that had been occupied by a mosque during the Ottoman occupation of Hungary. The Order received the land in 1693 after the 1686 liberation of Buda, completed the monastery in 1736, and consecrated it in 1763. In the 1780s, Joseph II's Klostersturm forced the Carmelites to disband, and in 1786, an imperial decree converted the monastery into the Castle Theatre (Várszínház) "for the delectation of high-ranking court officials." Notable performances during the imperial era included Ludwig van Beethoven and the premiere of Bánk bán.