From that time also dates the reliance of the Fede-
ration of the Montenegrin clans upon Russia and
the Montenegrin co-operation with Russian plans
in all Russo-Turkish wars.
In all other Serb lands the great crisis at the end of
the seventeenth century was followed by a period of
quiescence in consequence of the compromise made
by the Patriarch Kalinik with the Sultan. That
compromise provided for conditions under which
in certain districts the Serbs were able to improve
their economic situation and regain much of the ad-
vantages previously secured to them under the Servian
Patriarchal and which they had lost during the time
of their disastrous affiliation with Austria.
604 THE SERVIAN PEOPLE

In 1715 the Turks attacked the Venetian Province
of Morea, in Greece, and in 1716 the Emperor
Charles VI, successor of Joseph I, as an ally of Ven-
ice, declared war on Turkey. In order to secure the
military support of the Serbs he issued a proclamation
once again confirming them in all their old privileges
and rights 1 and at the same time calling them to arms.
Belgrade, the chief point of Turkish resistance, was
taken, and with it the entire territory of the Pashalik
of Belgrade fell into the hands of the Austrian troops.
Successive Turkish defeats decided the Sultan to
sue for peace, which was concluded at Pozharevatz
in 1718. By that treaty the Emperor got from
Turkey the Banat, Lower Syrmia, Servia up to
Tchoupria, and the Bosnian Posavina. Venice ob-
tained from Turkey by the same peace a rectification
of her borders in Dalmatia.
