Siege of Pest

Siege of Pest
	Part of the Habsburg–Ottoman 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

Last updated July 05, 2025

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

↑ E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, Vol 2 by Martijn Theodoor Houtsma p.524
1 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.

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[1] E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, Vol 2 by Martijn Theodoor Houtsma p.524

[Osmond_20-2] 1 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.

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