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The siege of Belgrade (Hungarian: Nándorfehérvár ostroma) in 1521 is an event that followed as a result of the third major Ottoman attack on this Hungarian stronghold in the Ottoman–Hungarian wars at the time of the greatest expansion of the Ottoman Empire to the west. Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent launched
The Ottoman–Hungarian War of 1521–1526 – an armed conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary, which effectively ended the independence of the Kingdom of Hungary and began the period of Ottoman conquest of the Middle Danube.
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Gazi Husrev-beg was born in Serres, Greece. [1] His father, Ferhad-beg, was a Bosnian nobleman from Hum (modern-day Herzegovina), who worked as a high court official. [2] His mother, Selçuk Sultan, was the daughter of the Sultan Bayezid II, making Gazi Husrev-beg Beyazid II's grandson.
The siege of Belgrade, or siege of Nándorfehérvár (Hungarian: Nándorfehérvár ostroma or nándorfehérvári diadal, lit. "Triumph of Nándorfehérvár"; Serbian Cyrillic: Опсада Београда, romanized: Opsada Beograda) was a military blockade of Belgrade that occurred 4–22 July 1456 in the aftermath of the fall of Constantinople in 1453 marking the Ottomans' attempts to ...
Belgrade has had many names through history, and in nearly all languages the name translates as "the white city" or similar. Serbian name Beograd is a compound of beo ("white, light") and grad ("town, city"), and etymologically corresponds to several other city names spread throughout the Slavdom: Belgorod , Białogard , Biograd etc.
Belgrade has been besieged numerous times in its history, Siege of Belgrade may refer to: Siege of Belgrade (1440) , failed Ottoman siege Siege of Belgrade (1456) , failed Ottoman siege
1690: Siege of Belgrade (1690): the Ottomans capture Belgrade anew. 1717: Siege of Belgrade (1717): Prince Eugene of Savoy captures the city (Prinz Eugen, der edle Ritter). 1718: Belgrade becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Serbia, a Habsburg monarchy province. 1720–1733: Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg is the autocratic governor of ...