Siege of Belgrade (1521)

Siege of Belgrade (currently part of Serbia)

Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe and Ottoman-Hungarian Wars

Date	25 June - 29 August 1521
Location	Nándorfehérvár, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Belgrade, Serbia)
Result	Decisive Ottoman victory

Belligerents

Kingdom of Hungary

Ottoman Empire

Commanders and leaders

Mihály Móré
Balázs Oláh

Suleiman I

Ottoman–Hungarian Wars

Campaign of Louis I (1) Treviso Campaign of Louis I (2) Nicopolis Doboj Radkersburg Golubac Lower Danube War Smederevo Hermannstadt Iron Gate Niš Zlatitsa Kunovica Várna Kosovo Belgrade (1456) Jajce Vaslui Breadfield Krbava field Otranto Mohács (1526) see also: Ottoman–Habsburg wars

The Siege of Belgrade occurred from July-29 August 1521. Sultan Suleiman I laid siege to the Hungarian fortress of Belgrade. The walls were undermined by mining and seven days of heavy bombardment. Thereafter the city was assaulted and conquered without great difficulty and with little loss of soldiers.^[1] Belgrade became an important military base for further operations in Europe and the seat of the Pashalik of Belgrade.^[2] During Ottoman rule Belgrade became one of Europe's largest cities.^[3] The conquest eventually led to the Battle of Mohács and to the conquest of a large part of the Kingdom of Hungary by the Ottomans.

References

↑ The acts and monuments of John Foxe: Vol. IV, John Fox and George Townsend, 1846, p.52
↑ The Age Of Nepotism by Vahid Razavi, 2009, p.23
↑ The Age Of Nepotism by Vahid Razavi, 2009, p.23

Siege of Belgrade (1521)

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