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Eastern Hungarian Kingdom
1526–1570
1526–1570. After Mohács, John Zápolya was elected king by one faction against the Habsburg Ferdinand I, splitting Hungary.
- Existed
- 1526–1570
- Shown on the map
- 1529–1571
- Peak area
- 145k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
1526–1570. After Mohács, John Zápolya was elected king by one faction against the Habsburg Ferdinand I, splitting Hungary. Backed by the Ottomans, Zápolya and then his infant son John Sigismund held the eastern portion. By the Treaty of Speyer (1570) John Sigismund renounced the royal title, converting the realm into the Principality of Transylvania under nominal Habsburg overlordship but real Ottoman vassalage.
Common questions
- What was the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom?
- 1526–1570. After Mohács, John Zápolya was elected king by one faction against the Habsburg Ferdinand I, splitting Hungary.
- When did the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom exist?
- The Eastern Hungarian Kingdom existed 1526–1570. On this map it is drawn 1529–1571.
- How large was the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom covered about 145,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, academic works (John Fine on the Balkans, Halperin and Martin on Muscovy, Rady and Veszprémy on Hungary) and, for a few entries, the medieval Livonian Chronicle of Henry itself. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Eastern Hungarian Kingdom en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Hungarian_Kingdom
This entry was last updated .
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Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.
Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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