Siege of Belgrade (1521)
| Siege of Belgrade | |||||||||
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| Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe and Hungarian–Ottoman Wars | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Ottoman Empire | Kingdom of Hungary | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Sultan Suleiman I Gazi Husrev Bey Piri Mehmed Ahmed Pasha Mustafa Pasha |
Mihály Móré Balázs Oláh Petar Ovčarević | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 100,000 | Unknown | ||||||||
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 his army in mid-May 1521. The Hungarian state was almost in disarray and unable to effectively counter the Ottoman army.