event
Battle of Mohács
Mohács
also: mohácsi gyásznap, the day of mourning at Mohács
The Battle of Mohács (29 August 1526) in which Ottoman forces under Suleiman the Magnificent crushed the Hungarian army and killed King Louis II, ending independent medieval Hungary. It became the central trauma of Hungarian national memory.
Reading notes
- First Attempts (Juvenilia) §108 Field of Mohács
The Battle of Mohács (29 August 1526) in which Ottoman forces under Suleiman destroyed the Hungarian army and killed King Louis II, ending medieval Hungary's independence; it became the central trauma of Hungarian Romantic national poetry.
- On Women and Their Vocation §1 Mohács
The Battle of Mohács (1526) in which the Ottoman army crushed Hungarian forces under King Louis II; it marked the end of independent medieval Hungary and became the defining national catastrophe in Hungarian memory.