THE WESTERN BORDER OF THE TRANSYLVANIAN PRINCIPALITY AS A CONFLICT AREA IN THE 1570s Cover Image

Frontiera apuseană a Principatului Transilvan ca zonă de conflict în anii 1570
THE WESTERN BORDER OF THE TRANSYLVANIAN PRINCIPALITY AS A CONFLICT AREA IN THE 1570s

Author(s): Florin Ardelean
Subject(s): History
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Maximilian II of Habsburg; Szapolyai Family; Stephen Báthory; Transylvania; Border

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the 1570s the Habsburg monarchy seemed to have finally reached the eastern point where control over the divided and young Transylvanian principality was actually possible, after the failure of the previous (more notable) attempts in the late 1520s or 1550s. Transylvanian authorities were however able to counteract, making the most (like their predecessors) from the Habsburg-Ottoman conflicts. This eastern joint-course of action and reaction turned the western border area of the principality into a zone of almost permanent, major and minor, military conflicts.

  • Issue Year: XLVIII/2011
  • Issue No: 48
  • Page Range: 91-99
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian