Siege of Pest

The Siege of Pest (modern city of Budapest, Hungary) occurred in 1542, when Ferdinand of Austria attempted to recover the cities of Buda and Pest in 1542 from the Ottoman Empire.[1] They had been occupied by the Ottomans since the Siege of Buda (1541).[2]

Siege of Pest
Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars

Siege of Pest, after Enea Vico, 1542.
Date1542
Location
Buda and Pest, Hungary
Result Ottoman victory,
Ottomans repulse Habsburgs
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire Habsburg Empire
Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Croatia
Papal States
Duchy of Milan
Republic of Venice
Commanders and leaders
Koca Bali Pasha Joachim Brandenburg
Alessandro Vitelli
Hans von Ungnad
Nikola IV Zrinski
Strength
2,000 Janissaries, 10,000 Sipahi and irregular troops ~60,000 soldiers, 60 guns
Casualties and losses
unknown heavy

The siege was led by Joachim of Brandenburg.[2] The siege was repulsed by the Ottomans, who would remain in control of central Hungary for the following 150 years.

Notes
  1. E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, Vol 2 by Martijn Theodoor Houtsma p.524
  2. 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.

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