Siege of Güns

When

15 Aug 1532 – 9 Sep 1532

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

47.39° N, 16.54° E

Description

siege of Kőszeg (German: Güns) in the Kingdom of Hungary within the Habsburg Empire, that took place in 1532

Part of the Ottoman-Habsburg wars in 1532

The siege of Kőszeg or siege of Güns, also known as the German campaign was a siege of Kőszeg in the Western Kingdom of Hungary which ruled by Ferdinand I, a Habsburg king, that took place in 1532. During the siege, the defending forces of the Habsburg monarchy under the leadership of Croatian Captain Nikola Jurišić, defended the small border fort of Kőszeg with fewer than 50 soldiers and only 700 Hungarian villagers…

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The siege of Güns in the Austrian Empire begins as the Ottoman army, under Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Güns Kuşatması gerçekleşti”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei der Belagerung von Kőszeg durch die Osmanen können sich die Verteidiger der Stadt, unter ihrem Feldherrn Nikola Jurišić, gegen die Belagerer behaupten”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page