The Battle of Moh cs, 1526

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-69582-5
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 146, 536 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1039 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

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 of oppression.

This volume presents new research on these events and their interpretation, focusing on topics such as battlefield reconstruction, troop involvement, firearm use, and later political use and abuse of the memory of the battle.

Contributors are Pál Fodor, Péter Gyenizse, Erika Hancz, Máté Kitanics, Sándor Konkoly, Dénes Lóczy, Tamás Morva, Norbert Pap, Júlia Papp, Gábor Szalai, and Gábor Varga.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pap, Norbert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Norbert Pap, Ph.D. (1999), University of Pécs, Hungary, is a Full Professor of Historical and Political Geography at that university. He has published monographs and a number of articles on Central Europe and the Balkans.