Siege of Pest

Siege of Pest
Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg War of 1540–1547
Siege of Pest, after Enea Vico, 1542
Date 1542 Location Buda and Pest, Hungary (Budapest) Result Ottoman victory, Ottomans repulse Habsburgs
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of Hungary Kingdom of Croatia Papal States Duchy of Milan Republic of Venice
Commanders and leaders
Suleiman the Magnificent	Joachim Brandenburg Alessandro Vitelli Hans von Ungnad Nikola IV Zrinski
Strength
2,000 Janissaries, 10,000 Sipahi and irregular troops	~60,000 soldiers, 60 guns
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Heavy

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

The siege was led by Joachim of 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. Anett Puskár, "Noble Strategies for Maintaining Power: Reflections on the Life of a Hungarian Aristocrat", in Power and Culture: Identity, Ideology, Representation, edited by Jonathan Osmond and Ausma Cimdin̦a (Edizioni Plus, 2007), p. 20.