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Siege of Belgrade

The siege of Belgrade (Hungarian: Nándorfehérvár ostroma) in 1521 is an event that followed as a result of the third major Ottoman attack on this Hungarian stronghold in the Ottoman–Hungarian wars at the time of the greatest expansion of the Ottoman Empire to the west. Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent launched his army in mid-May 1521.

Siege of Belgrade
Siege of Belgrade · Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1521
Where
Belgrade
Era
Early Modern

Topics

Serbia201 CE – today

Before and after

Italian War of 1521–15261521 – 1526Swedish War of Liberation1521 – 1523Show on timeline

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