The Bloody Carnival ( hu, véres farsang) was the massacre of
Székely Székely may refer to:
*Székelys, Hungarian people from the historical region of Transylvania, Romania
**Székely Land, historic and ethnographic area in Transylvania, Romania
* Székely (village), a village in northeastern Hungary
*Székely (sur ...
serfs in February 1596 after their rebellion for the restoration of their freedom. The Székelys rose up because the
Diet of Transylvania had refused to restore their freedom.
Sigismund Báthory,
Prince of Transylvania promised them to restore their freedom if they joined his campaign against the
Ottomans
The Ottoman Turks ( tr, Osmanlı Türkleri), were the Turkic founding and sociopolitically the most dominant ethnic group of the Ottoman Empire ( 1299/1302–1922).
Reliable information about the early history of Ottoman Turks remains scarce, ...
in
Wallachia in autumn 1595.
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History of the Hungarians
Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)
Székelys
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