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An Absence Explained: Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and the Battle of Mohács

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Paula Sutter Fichtner
Paula Sutter Fichtner
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Brooklyn College
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On April 23, 1526, Suleiman, the Turkish sultan, left Constantinople at the head of an army numbering around 120,000 men. He marched in a northwesterly direction, his apparent purpose being the conquest of the Kingdom of Hungary. The Magyars and their subjects had once been a formidable barrier to the westward expansion of the Ottomans, but they were now badly weakened by the ineptness of their youthful king Louis and the rapacity and shortsightedness of their nobility.

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Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 2 , January 1966 , pp. 11 - 17
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 1966

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