Nikola Erdödy

Miklós Erdődy Nikola III Erdödy
Ban of Croatia
In office March 1670 – 7 June 1693
Preceded by	Petar Zrinski
Succeeded by	Adam Baćan
Personal details
Born	1630
Died	7 June 1693 Aranyosmarót, Kingdom of Hungary, Habsburg Monarchy
Resting place	Zagreb Cathedral, Croatia
Parents	Vuk I Erdődy Barbara Turóczy
Military service
Battles/wars	Great Turkish War

Miklós Erdődy de Monyorókerék et Monoszló (Croatian: Nikola III Erdödy) (1630 – 7 June 1693) was a Croatian ban of Hungarian descent. He was a member of the Erdődy noble family and a Hungarian count.

He succeeded Petar Zrinski as ban in 1671. In 1684 he began his most notable undertaking, driving Ottoman forces out of Slavonia. Virovitica was freed in 1684. In 1688 the city of Kostajnica was liberated, and Slavonski Brod was liberated by 1691.

Erdődy died in 1693. However, his work was carried on by his successor Adam Baćan. The wars against the Ottoman Empire throughout the region eventually led to the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699.

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