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Leopold I, detail of a portrait bust, c. 1700; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Habsburg forces captured Buda from the Ottomans in September 1686. The city, also known as Ofen, was liberated following a siege during the campaigns led by the Holy Roman emperor Leopold I to reclaim territory after the failed Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683.123