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1 online resource |
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Preliminary Material / Pál Fodor -- Introduction / Pál Fodor -- Ottoman Politics in the Reign of Sultan Süleyman: Government, Internal Politics and Imperial Expansion / Feridun M. Emecen -- Transformation of the Ottoman Empire into a Military-Fiscal State: Reconsidering the Financing of War from a Global Perspective / Erol Özvar -- State and Religion, "Sunnitization" and "Confessionalism" in Süleyman's Time / Tijana Krstić -- Law and Legislation under Süleyman I / Colin Imber -- The Aesthetics of Empire: Arts, Politics and Commerce in the Construction of Sultan Süleyman's Magnifijicence / Gülru Neci̇poğlu -- Habsburg Dynastic Politics and Empire Building during Charles V's Reign / Zoltán Korpás -- The Central European Habsburg Monarchy in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century -- Elements of Cohesion and Division / István Fazekas -- Camerale, Contributionale, Creditors and Crisis: The Finances of the Habsburg Empire from the Battle of Mohács to the Thirty Year's War / Peter Rauscher -- "Clash" or "Go-between"? Habsburg-Ottoman Relations in the Age of Süleyman (1520-1566) / Arno Strohmeyer -- Intangible Cultural Exchanges: Christendom's Eastern Frontier as Seen by Philip II's Ambassador Chantonnay (1566) / Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra -- The Ottoman Conquest in Hungary: Decisive Events (Belgrade 1521, Mohács 1526, Vienna 1529, Buda 1541) and Results / János B. Szabó -- The Ottoman Conquest and Establishment in Croatia and Slavonia / Nenad Moačanin -- Ottoman and Habsburg Military Afffairs in the Age of Süleyman the Magnifijicent / Gábor Ágoston -- Ottoman Defence System in Hungary / Klára Hegyi -- Hungary, Vienna and the Defence System against the Ottomans in the Age of Süleyman / Géza Pálfffy -- The Hungarian Frontier and Süleyman's Way to Szigetvár according to Ottoman Sources / Claudia Römer and Nicolas Vatin -- Tokaj, 1565: A Habsburg Prize of War, and an Ottoman Casus Belli / James D. Tracy -- Miklós Zrínyi, Captain-General of Szigetvár (1561-1566) -- His Organisational Activity and Death / Szabolcs Varga -- The Sieges of Szigetvár and Gyula, 1566 / József Kelenik -- Sigetvarname: A Visual Source of Sultan Süleyman's Last Campaign / Zeynep Tarım -- On Süleyman the Magnifijicent's Death and Burials / Nicolas Vatin -- The Memory of the 1566 Siege of Sziget and of Miklós Zrínyi in Hungarian Literary Tradition / Gábor Tüskés -- The Entangled Memory of the Battle of Sziget (1566) in Early Modern Europe / Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik -- The Memory of Nicholas IV of Zrin and the Battle of Szigetvár in Croatia and the Balkans / Damir Karbić -- The Memory of Szigetvár and Sultan Süleyman in Ottoman/Turkish Culture / Günhan Börekçi -- The Pilgrimage Town (Türbe Kasabası) of Sultan Süleyman at Szigetvár / Norbert Pap -- Index of Personal Names / Pál Fodor -- Index of Geographical Names / Pál Fodor |
| Summary |
In 'The Battle for Central Europe' specialists in sixteenth-century Ottoman, Habsburg and Hungarian history provide the most comprehensive picture possible of a battle that determined the fate of Central Europe for centuries. Not only the siege and the death of its main protagonists are discussed, but also the wider context of the imperial rivalry and the empire buildings of the competing great powers of that age |
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Title from online resource |
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Süleyman I, Sultan of the Turks, 1494 or 1495-1566.
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| SUBJECT |
Süleyman I, Sultan of the Turks, 1494 or 1495-1566 fast |
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Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138802
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Turkey -- History -- Süleyman I, 1520-1566.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138808
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| Subject |
Turkey
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fodor, Pál
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| ISBN |
9789004396234 |
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9004396233 |
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