Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary (1526–1568)
| Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary Little War in Hungary | |||||||||
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| Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars | |||||||||
Siege of Eger in 1552 | |||||||||
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Ottoman Empire John Szapolyai's Hungarian kingdom Kingdom of France | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Archduke Ferdinand I Ferrante I Gonzaga Nikola Jurišić Johann Katzianer Lazarus von Schwendi |
Suleiman the Magnificent John Szapolyai Christoph Frankopan † | ||||||||
The Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Empire waged a series of wars on the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary and several adjacent lands in Southeastern Europe from 1526 to 1568. The Habsburgs and the Ottomans engaged in a series of military campaigns against one another in Hungary between 1526 and 1568. While overall the Ottomans had the upper hand, the war failed to produce any decisive result. The Ottoman army remained very powerful in the open field but it often lost a significant amount of time besieging the many fortresses of the Hungarian frontier and its communication lines were now dangerously overstretched. At the end of the conflict, Hungary had been split into several different zones of control, between the Ottomans, Habsburgs, and Transylvania, nominally Ottoman vassal state. The simultaneous war of succession between Habsburg-controlled western "Royal Hungary" and the Zápolya-ruled pro-Ottoman "Eastern Hungarian Kingdom" is known as the Little War in Hungary.