The Battle of Petrovaradin was a battle between the Imperial Austrian army and the Ottoman army. It took place on the 5th August 1716 during the 6th Austrian Turkish War at Petrovaradin.

In 1716, Grand Vizier Damat Ali Pasha Silahdar gathered a 150,000-strong Ottoman army whose core Janissaries 40,000 and 20,000 Sipahi, and 10,000 were Tatars, in Belgrade. This army crossed the Sava at Semlin in late July and advanced on the right bank of the Danube towards Karlowitz.

The Imperial Austrian army commander, Prince Eugene of Savoy decided to confront the Turks at Petrovaradin, because of its strategic location. He had initiated the construction of a fortified camp under the protection of the local fortress and put the 80,000-strong imperial army from their quarters in Futog on the march.On 2 August saw the first fighting between the Imperial vanguard and Turkish cavalry. The very next day the Grand Vizier stood before Petrovaradin and immediately sent 30,000 Janissaries against the Imperial positions. They dug seps and began the bombardment of the fortifications.

The core of the imperial army crossed only in the night of the 5th August via two pontoon bridges the Danube and moved in the camp.

On the morning of 5 August at 7 clock Prinz Eugen began the attack. While the right wing under Prince Alexander of Württemberg took an Ottoman artillery battery by storm, the Imperials in the centre fell in distress: The narrow exits from the camp made the march proceeded slowly. The Janissaries were immediately counter-attacking and pushed the Imperial army back to camp. Prinz Eugen sealed off the incursion in the centre with additional troops and sent his cavalry in the flanks of the Turks, which surrounded them. Grand Vizier failed to break the encircling with his Sipahi and organise his forces again. The Tartars went away without even a fight. After the defeated Ottomans were wiped out, Prince Eugene personally led his troops against the Grand Vizier's encampment. Supported by the guns of six frigates of the Danube fleet, the battle had been won by two o'clock, with the Grand Vizier himself among the slain. Barely 50,000 Ottomans returned to Belgrade. Soon, from Constantinople came a messenger from the Sultan with order of execution of Damat Ali.