Emeric Thököly de Késmárk was a Hungarian nobleman, leader of anti-Habsburg uprisings like his father, Count István Thököly, before him. Emeric was Prince of Upper Hungary, an Ottoman vassal state, fr
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Bust of Imre Thököly in the park of the Vaja Castle, Hungary
Kežmarok is a town in the Spiš region of eastern Slovakia, on the Poprad River. Before World War I, it was in Szepes county in the Kingdom of Hungary.
Emeric Thököly
…and finally retired to Galata, near Constantinople, with large estates granted to him by Mustafa II. Thököly was born in Késmárk in Royal Hungary (now Kežmarok in Slovakia) on 25 September 1657 as the fifth son of Count István Thököly and Mária Gyulaffy. His father was one of the wealthiest aristocrats in Upper…