Historedia
Episode 1 of 2

Launch of the 1529 Campaign

When
10 May 1529
Where
Ottoman Bulgaria
Part of
Ottoman Campaign in Hungary and Siege of Vienna

Suleiman musters an army in Bulgaria and launches the invasion of Hungary on 10 May 1529.

In the spring of 1529, Suleiman assembled a large force in Ottoman Bulgaria to secure control over Hungary. The campaign officially began on 10 May 1529, facing numerous logistical and military obstacles from the start of the march.

Sources

  1. Siege of Vienna (1529) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-05

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.