Battle for Central Europe
Subtitle: The Siege of Szigetvár and the Death of Süleyman the Magnificent and Nicholas Zrínyi
Publisher: BRILL; Brill
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9789004396227
Subjects: Europe, central, history
Description: 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.