Which of the following statements is not true about Ottoman power in Europe?
A. It came to be accepted by the leadership of the non-Turkish European states.
B. It was aggressively extended into central Europe.
C. It destroyed a European coalition of Austrian, Polish, Bavarian, and Saxon forces at Vienna in 1683 and held the city for ten years.
D. It was ultimately forced out of Hungary by an alliance of allied European armies.
E. It threatened to take naval control of the Mediterranean until the Battle of Lepanto.
Answer: C
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