Kingdom of Hungary

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The battle of Mohács and the conquest of Buda

The first battle of Mohács was fought on 21 Dhu 'l-Qa'da 932 AH, August 1526, between Suleiman's army and that of the Hungarian king Louis II. The Hungarian army was completely beaten in about an hour and a half and the king drowned. Suleiman then entered Buda without resistance; he did not annex Hungary but regarded it as his own. The defeat was a turning point, followed by long anarchy and the division of the country into three zones for over 150 years.

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