Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Babban dalilin Eugene na son zaman lafiya a yamma shine haɗarin da Turkawa ke haifarwa a gabas. An sake farfado da burin sojan Turkiyya bayan 1711 lokacin da suka yi wa sojojin Peter Mai Girma rauni a kan kogin Pruth (Kamfen na Kogin Pruth): a watan Disamba na 1714 sojojin Sultan Ahmed III sun kai wa Venetians hari a Morea. A Vienna a bayyane yake cewa Turks sun yi niyyar kai hari kan Hungary da kuma soke duk zaman lafiya na Karlowitz na 1699. Bayan Porte ya ƙi tayin sasantawa a watan Afrilu na 1716, Charles VI ya aika Eugene zuwa Hungary don ya jagoranci ƙaramin rundunarsa amma ƙwararru. Daga dukkan yaƙe-yaƙe na Eugene wannan shi ne wanda ya yi amfani da iko kai tsaye; ya kuma kasance yaƙin da, a mafi yawan bangarorin, Austria ta yi yaƙi kuma ta ci nasara da kanta. Eugene ya bar Vienna a farkon Yuni 1716 tare da rundunar soja tsakanin 80,000 zuwa 90,000. A farkon watan Agusta 1716, Turkawa na Ottoman, kimanin mutane 200,000 a karkashin surukin sultan, Grand Vizier Damat Ali Pasha, suna tafiya daga Belgrade zuwa matsayin Eugene a yammacin sansanin Petrovaradin a arewacin Kogin Danube. Babban Vizier ya yi niyyar kama sansanin soja; amma Eugene bai ba shi damar yin hakan ba. Bayan ya yi tsayayya da kira don yin hankali da kuma watsi da majalisa na yaki, Yarima ya yanke shawarar kai farmaki nan da nan
a safiyar ranar 5 ga watan Agusta tare da kimanin mutane 70,000. Janissaries na Turkiyya sun sami wasu nasarori na farko, amma bayan wani hari na doki na Imperial a gefen su, sojojin Ali Pasha sun rikice. Kodayake Masarautar ta yi asarar kusan mutane 5,000 da suka mutu ko suka ji rauni, Turkawa, waɗanda suka ja da baya cikin rikici zuwa Belgrade, da alama sun yi asarar ninki biyu, gami da Babban Vizier da kansa wanda ya shiga cikin mêlée kuma daga baya ya mutu sakamakon raunukansa.