Mohács, Battle of

Mohács, Battle of

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      (Aug. 29, 1526), decisive defeat of Hungary by the Turks, which marked the effective destruction of the Hungarian monarchy and paved the way for Habsburg and Turkish domination in Hungary. In 1521 the Turkish sultan Süleyman I (reigned 1520–66), taking advantage of Hungary's political, economic, and military decline during the regimes of Vladislav (Ulázsló II) Jagiełło (reigned 1490–1516) and his son Louis II (reigned 1516–26), demanded tribute. When Louis refused to pay, the Turks advanced toward Hungary, capturing the fortresses of Sabac and Belgrade. Although they postponed further attacks, Hungary was too weak to rally its forces and was unprepared when the Turks resumed their advance and seized Petervárad (Peterwardein) in July 1526.

      Louis hurriedly assembled a force of some 20,000 men, including a contingent of knightly French crusaders, and advanced from Buda to meet the Turks. Without waiting for reinforcements from Transylvania and Croatia, he attacked Süleyman's army of more than 100,000 troops at Mohács. The Hungarian force was annihilated; Louis was killed in his flight. Süleyman proceeded into Buda (September 10) but then withdrew from the country, taking more than 100,000 captives with him.

      Hungary never recovered from this defeat. A prolonged civil war (1526–38) ultimately resulted in the incorporation of the central and southern two-thirds of Hungary into the Ottoman Empire (1547) and in the establishment of Transylvania and the eastern Hungarian provinces as an autonomous principality within the Ottoman Empire.

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