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Siege of Šabac (1521)

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Siege of Šabac
Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe and Ottoman-Hungarian Wars
Date7 July 1521
LocationŠabac
Result Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Hungary Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Louis II Suleiman I
Ahmed Pasha
Casualties and losses
All defenders killed Unknown
Hungarian–Ottoman Wars
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1366–1367)
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1375–1377)
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1389–1396)
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1415–1419)
War of the South Danube (1420–1432)
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1437–1442)
Long campaign and Crusade of Varna (1443–1444)
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1445–1448)
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1449–1456)
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1458–1490)
Hungarian–Ottoman War (1521–1526)
Ottoman–Habsburg wars

The siege of Šabac or Szabács occurred on 7 July in the year 1521 when the Ottoman Empire conquered the Šabac fortress.

In 1520 Suleiman the Magnificent ascended to the throne. The Ottomans under the leadership of Ahmed Pasha conquered the fortress of Šabac on 7 July in 1521. All of its defenders were killed. After its conquest Suleiman said that it was one of the cities he had conquered and that it must be improved. He ordered towers to be built around the fortress and a moat around it filled with water from Sava. Suleiman spent 10 full days on the Sava at Šabac overseeing the construction of the pontoon bridge.

References

  1. ^ Grčić, Mirko, and Ljiljana Grčić. "Genesis of the city Šabac and origin of its name." Zbornik radova Geografskog instituta" Jovan Cvijić", SANU 61, no. 1 (2011): 85-105.
  2. Kásler, Miklós. "Ethnic and Demographic Changes in Hungary’s (More Than) 1100 Years Long History." POLGÁRI SZEMLE: GAZDASÁGI ÉS TÁRSADALMI FOLYÓIRAT 13, no. Spec. (2017): 295-325.
  3. Mikaberidze, Alexander, ed. Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia : A Historical Encyclopedia. abc-clio, 2011.
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