From Nicopolis to Mohács: A History of Ottoman-Hungarian Warfare, 1389-1526

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BRILL, Sep 24, 2018 - History - 518 pages
In From Nicopolis to Mohács, Tamás Pálosfalvi offers an account of Ottoman-Hungarian warfare from its start in the late fourteenth century to the battle of Mohács in 1526. During this period of one century and a half, the Kingdom of Hungary was the most constant and strongest rival of the expanding Ottoman Empire in Europe, and as such waged constant warfare in defence of its borders.
Based on the extensive use of hitherto unexplored source material, Pálosfalvi not only offers a sound chronology of military events, but also a description of Hungarian military structures and their transformation under constant Ottoman pressure, as well as an analysis of the reasons that lay behind the military breakdown of Hungary in the third decade of the sixteenth century.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Hungarian Military Organization 13871526
8
Hungary and the Ottomans 13891428
51
3 From Golubac to Belgrade 14281456
77
King Matthias and the Ottomans 14581483
188
5 The Wars of the Long Peace 14831520
278
6 The Collapse 15211526
372
Why Did Hungary Lose?
445
Bibliography
463
Index
486
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