Passarowitz, or more correctly POSHAREWATZ, a town of Servia, 9 miles S. of the Danube and 40 SE. of Belgrade. Pop. 9394. Here was signed, July 21, 1718, the treaty between Venice and the emperor, on the one side, and the Porte on the other, by which a truce of twenty-five years was established, and the Banat of Temesvar, the western portion of Wallachia and Servia, Belgrade, and part of Bosnia were secured to Austria.
Passarowitz
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 792
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