page_title: Siege of Buda (1686)
section_title: Ottoman Buda
hierarchical_section_title: Siege of Buda (1686) / Background / Ottoman Buda
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Einnahme von Buda 1686 Wohl Österreich, nach 1686English: "The Taking of Buda, 1686" in the Deutsches Historisches Museum
context_page_description: The Siege of Buda (1686) was fought between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire, as part of the follow-up campaign in Hungary after the Battle of Vienna. The Holy League took Buda after a long siege.
context_section_description: In 1541, Buda was conquered by the Turks in the Siege of Buda, and was under Ottoman rule for the next 145 years.
  The economic decline of Buda the capital city during the Ottoman conquest characterized by the stagnation of population. The population of Buda was not larger in 1686, than the population of the city two centuries earlier in the 15th century. The Ottomans allowed the Hungarian royal palace to fall into ruins. The amortized palace was later transformed into a gunpowder storage and magazine by the Ottomans, which caused its detonation during the siege in 1686. The original Christian Hungarian population did not feel secure during the Ottoman conquest, their numbers significantly shrank in the next decades, because they fled to the Habsburg ruled Royal Hungary. The number of Jews and Gypsy immigrants became dominant during the Ottoman rule in Buda. It became an Ottoman cultural and commercial center. Some of the churches in the city were rebuilt as mosques rather than being destroyed. Churches, mosques, schools, communal kitchens, bakeries and Turkish baths were built.
caption: The Holy League took Buda after a long siege in 1686
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