The Battle of Mohács /

The Battle of Mohács /

The story of the battle of Mohács and of King Louis II's dramatic escape, only to meet his end by falling from his horse and drowning in the stream of Csele, is well-known. These traumatic events have been seen as symbolizing the fall of the independent Hungarian Kingdom and the dawn of an age...

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Other Authors: Pap, Norbert (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
History of Warfare ; 146.

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Mohács, Battle of, Hungary, 1526.

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Call Number: DR507

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface of the Editor
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Exploring Research Challenges on the Battle of Mohács
  • Norbert Pap
  • PART 1: The Armies and the Battle
  • 1 Süleyman and Hungary: Conquest, Ideology and Memory
  • Pál Fodor
  • 2 The Main Scenes
  • Norbert Pap, Máté Kitanics and Péter Gyenizse
  • 3 The Hungarian and Ottoman Forces at the Battle of Mohács
  • Máté Kitanics, Pál Fodor and Norbert Pap
  • 4 Ottoman Turkish Handguns
  • Norbert Pap, Pál Fodor and Máté Kitanics
  • 5 The Battle and Its Aftermath
  • Norbert Pap and Máté Kitanics
  • PART 2: The Overall Landscape
  • 6 Geomorphology of the Mohács Plain and Its Environs
  • Péter Gyenizse, Dénes Lóczy and Gábor Varga
  • 7 Reconstruction of the Drainage of the Mohács Plain and Its Implications for the Battle of Mohács
  • Péter Gyenizse, Dénes Lóczy and Gábor Varga
  • PART 3: The Battle Arena
  • 8 Localizing the Central Area of the Battle of Mohács: Search for the Medieval Settlement of Földvár
  • Norbert Pap, Máté Kitanics and Péter Gyenizse
  • 9 Critical Comments on the Available Military Archaeology Topographic Data
  • Máté Kitanics, Norbert Pap, Sándor Konkoly and Erika Hancz
  • 10 Where and How Did King Louis II Die?
  • Norbert Pap, Péter Gyenizse and Máté Kitanics
  • PART 4: Spaces of Remembrance
  • 11 Hünkâr Tepesi (Törökdomb): the Ottoman Memorial Place of the Battle
  • Norbert Pap, Pál Fodor, Máté Kitanics, Tamás Morva, Gábor Szalai, Erika Hancz and Péter Gyenizse
  • 12 Landscape, Artistic Representation, Memorials: Remembrance of the Location of the Battle of Mohács in 1526
  • Júlia Papp
  • 13 Memorial Politics and the Sites of the Battle of Mohács
  • Norbert Pap
  • Index.