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The latter period of Báthory rule saw Transylvania under Sigismund Báthory – prince of the Holy Roman Empire [21] – enter the Long War, which started as a Christian alliance against the Turks and became a four-sided conflict involving Transylvania, the Habsburgs, the Ottomans, and the voivode of Wallachia, Michael the Brave.
Transylvania, together with the neighboring counties, gained the status of an autonomous state under Ottoman suzerainty after the central territories of the Kingdom of Hungary had been annexed by the Ottomans in 1541. The fall of the kingdom also deprived Wallachia and Moldavia of their main ally in the struggle against the Ottoman Empire.
Transylvania is a historical region in central and northwestern Romania.It was under the rule of the Agathyrsi, part of the Dacian Kingdom (168 BC–106 AD), Roman Dacia (106–271), the Goths, the Hunnic Empire (4th–5th centuries), the Kingdom of the Gepids (5th–6th centuries), the Avar Khaganate (6th–9th centuries), the Slavs, and the 9th century First Bulgarian Empire.
In May 1660, the Ottomans, led by Ahmed Pasha and Ali Pasha of Temesvár, defeated Rákóczi near Szászfenes, and two weeks later, Rákóczi succumbed to his wounds. Nagyvárad remained unprotected. The fortress held a strategic place as it was an entrance to Transylvania. The Ottomans then marched to capture the fort. [2]
After the devastation of the Kingdom of Hungary at Ottoman hands and its subsequent partition, Transylvania also became its own nearly independent state [11] which included not only the geographic region of Transylvania, but also parts of Banat and the "Western Parts" (Bereg, Crișana, Maramureș, parts of Szolnok, Ung and others; sometimes ...
Transylvania (Romanian: Transilvania ... During most of the 16th and 17th centuries, the principality was a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire; however, ...
Ottoman rule on Hungary at its peak in 1683, including Budin, Egri, Kanije, Temesvar, Uyvar, and Varat eyalets. The semi-independent Principality of Transylvania was an Ottoman vassal state for the majority of the 16th and 17th centuries, the short lived Imre Thököly's Principality of Upper Hungary also briefly became an Ottoman vassal state due to an anti-Habsburg Protestant uprising ...
Bethlen invaded Transylvania accompanied by Ottoman, Wallachian and Crimean Tatar troops. [89] The Three Nations proclaimed him prince on 23 September 1613 and the Hajduks murdered his opponent. [89] Gabriel Bethlen Gabriel Bethlen's widow and successor, Catherine of Brandenburg. Transylvania prospered during Bethlen's reign. [90]