Carlo'vitz, or KARLO'WITZ (in England, however, usually Car'lovitz), a town of the Austrian empire, in Slavonia, on the right bank of the Danube, 30 miles NW. of Belgrade. It has a Greek cathedral, and is noted for its wine, which—especially the red variety—ranks with the best and strongest obtained in Hungary, and is largely exported. Pop. 4916. The treaty of Carlovitz was concluded, in 1699, between the allies Austria, Russia, Poland, and Venice, on one side, and the Porte on the other, and provided that Austria should repossess the territories captured by the Turks during two centuries, including Hungary, Slavonia, &c.; that Venice should hold the Morea; that Poland should take back Podolia and part of the Ukraine; and that Russia should have the territory of Azov.
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