Siege of Pest

Siege of Pest
	Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars
	; Siege of Pest, after Enea Vico, 1542
Date	1542
Location	Buda and Pest, Hungary (Budapest)
Result	Ottoman victory,; Ottomans repulse Habsburgs
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Holy Roman Empire; Kingdom of Hungary; Kingdom of Croatia; Papal States; Duchy of Milan; Republic of Venice
Commanders and leaders
Suleiman the Magnificent	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 of Pest (modern city of Budapest, Hungary) occurred in 1542, when Ferdinand I attempted to recover the cities of Buda and Pest in 1542 from the Ottoman Empire.[1] They had been occupied by the Ottomans under Suleiman since the siege of Buda (1541).[2]

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

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

[Osmond_20-2] 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.