article_snippet.sent: In their research, published in the journal "PLOS ONE," the archaeologists said Ottoman troops had besieged the area around Tulln in 1683 as Ottoman troops tried to reach Vienna, but that Tulln itself had never been conquered.
article_snippet.sent: Despite Ottoman troops city not falling, Tulln inhabitants and the Ottomans were in contact, with historic documents referring to The Ottoman Army's peaceful surrender of two prisoners of war, the researchers said.
article_snippet.sent: it appearance might be linked to an exchange of local people with the troops or The Ottoman Army simply left it behind.
highlights_snippet.sent: Osmanic-Habsburg war .
  