Fortress of Arad

The Fortress of Arad is a fortification device built within the town of Arad, on the left financial institution of the Mure? River within the 18th century at the direct order of the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa. The fort lies today within the Subcetate neighbourhood of the town, on the former military border between the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire. The fort has been used at some stage in its lifestyles as a army garrison, a military jail and nowadays it's miles the house of the Mixed Romanian-Hungarian Battalion due to the fact 1999. Following the victories of the Holy League at the Battle of Vienna and the Habsburg victory at the second one Battle of Mohács the city of Arad has been free of Ottoman rule.

After the Treaty of Karlowitz, the complete town of Arad was on the border region of the Habsburg Empire and so, of crucial significance for the Viennese Court as it became a focus of the Military Frontier administration until 1751. The strategic placement of the metropolis determined Prince Eugene of Savoy, to rebuild and improve the previous rectangular Turkish built fort, on the proper financial institution of the river, but after consultations with the Empress, the selection was made now not to rebuild the antique fort, but to erect a new and vastly improved fortified complex on the peninsula mendacity simply south of the town.