Siege of Pest

The Siege of Pest (modern city of Budapest, Hungary) occurred in 1542, when Ferdinand of Austria attempted to recover the cities of Buda and Pest in 1542 from the Ottoman Empire.[1] They had been occupied by the Ottomans since the Siege of Buda (1541).[2]

Siege of Pest
Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars

Siege of Pest, after Enea Vico, 1542.
Date1542
Location
Buda, Hungary
Result Ottoman victory,
Ottomans repulse Habsburgs
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire Habsburg Empire
Commanders and leaders
Joachim Brandenburg

The siege was led by Joachim Brandenburg.[2] The siege was repulsed by the Ottomans, who would remain in control of central Hungary for the following 150 years.

Notes
  1. E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, Vol 2 by Martijn Theodoor Houtsma p.524
  2. Power and culture: identity, ideology, representation by Jonathan Osmond, Ausma Cimdiņa p.20

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