Ottoman Occupation · event 1 of 3

1541

Buda falls to the Ottomans. Suleiman takes the city by a ruse rather than a siege. Hungary is divided three ways: Ottoman centre, Habsburg west and north, and a semi-independent Transylvania.

The Ottoman Occupation era

  1. 1541
  2. 1550s–1570s
  3. 1686

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