Hungarian–Ottoman War (1521–1526)

The Ottoman-Hungarian War of 1521–1526 - an armed conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary, which effectively ended the independence of the Kingdom of Hungary and began the period of Ottoman conquest of the Middle Danube.

Hungarian–Ottoman War (1521–1526)
Part of Ottoman–Hungarian wars

Discovering the Body of King Louis II (painting by Bertalan Székely, 1860)
Date1521–1526
Location
Result Ottoman victory
Territorial
changes
A part of the South Region, Nándorfehérvár, Petrovaradin and several southern strongholds with castles in Croatia, and almost all of Bosnian together with Hungarian possessions falls into Turkish hands
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Croatia
Serbian Despotate
Crown of Bohemia
Holy Roman Empire
Duchy of Bavaria
Papal States
Kingdom of Poland
Hungarian Slovenes
Commanders and leaders
Suleiman I
Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha
Malkoçoğlu Bali Bey
Gazi Hüsrev Bey
Louis II of Hungary 
Pál Tomori 
György Zápolya 
Stephen VII Báthory
Pavle Bakić
Radič Božić
Strength
1526: 50,000–100,000 1526: 25,000–40,000
Casualties and losses
1526: 1,500–2,000 1526: 24,000
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