The Battle of Mohács took place on 29 August 1526 near Mohács, in the Kingdom of Hungary. It was fought between the forces of Hungary, led by King Louis II, and the invading Ottoman Empire, commanded
The Battle of Mohács, coloured woodcut, 1526
Louis II of Hungary, who died at the Battle of Mohács, painted by Titian
Battle of Mohács (Turkish miniature, 1526)
Suleiman I after the victory at Mohács (Hünername of Lokman, 16th century)
The Ottoman–Habsburg wars were fought from the 16th to the 18th centuries between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy, which was at times supported by the Kingdom of Hungary, Polish–Lithuania
Battle of Mohács
…of Hungary between the Ottoman Empire, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom in 1541. The battle marked the beginning of sustained Ottoman–Habsburg wars and the decline of Hungary as an independent power. In Hungarian historical memory, Mohács remains a national tragedy, symbolised by the saying “More…
Left to right from the top: the siege of Vienna, the siege of Szigetvár, the Long Turkish War, the Battle of Saint Gotthard, the Battle of Vienna, the siege of Belgrade
"The Great Gun" (1518), an allegorical representation by Albrecht Dürer of the Turkish menace for the German lands
Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1530, by Titian.
The Ottomans were unable to overcome the long pike formations and arquebus fire of the defenders in the siege of Vienna (1529)