The siege of Pest (modern city of
Budapest
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,
Hungary
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) occurred in 1542, when
Ferdinand I attempted to recover the cities of
Buda
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and
Pest in 1542 from the
Ottoman Empire
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.
''E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, Vol 2'' by Martijn Theodoor Houtsma p.524
/ref> They had been occupied by 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, ...
under Suleiman
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since the siege of Buda (1541)
The siege of Buda (4 May – 21 August 1541) ended with the capture of the city of Buda, Hungary by the Ottoman Empire, leading to 150 years of Ottoman control of Hungary. The siege, part of the Little War in Hungary, was one of the most import ...
.
The siege was led by Joachim of Brandenburg
Joachim II (german: Joachim II Hector or ''Hektor''; 13 January 1505 – 3 January 1571) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1535–1571), the sixth member of the House of Hohenzollern. Joachim II was the eldest son of Joac ...
.[Anett Puskár, "Noble Strategies for Maintaining Power: Reflections on the Life of a Hungarian Aristocrat", in ''Power and Culture: Identity, Ideology, Representation'', edited by Jonathan Osmond and Ausma Cimdin̦a (Edizioni Plus, 2007)]
p. 20
The siege was repulsed by the Ottomans, who would remain in control of central Hungary
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for the following 150 years.
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