Central Europe · Animated schematic fronts

Ottoman expansion: Mohács and Vienna

Ottoman expansion in Hungary and the campaign towards Vienna.

This war had no continuous front. The line is a schematic limit of advance and operations: it summarises campaigns and is not a trench line or an administrative border. The coloured areas are operational sides, not evidence of contiguous occupation; in-between frames are interpolated and closing edges are graphic. After each campaign the Ottoman armies withdrew for the winter; the line shows the furthest point each season, not lasting occupation.