ALTERNATIVES IN HUNGARIAN HISTORY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
ALTERNATIVES IN HUNGARIAN HISTORY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: During the seventeenth century and at the beginning of the eighteenth century the Hungarian political elite, the Hungarian aristocracy and the Hungarian nobility, faced dramatic political choices and very important alternatives. After the Battle of Mohács in 1526 and after the capture of Buda, the ancient capital of the Hungarian kingdom, in 1541 the territory of Hungary came to be divided into three " temporarily even four " parts. The middle of the medieval Hungarian kingdom, the region around Buda, fell directly under Ottoman direction. The Turkish authorities divided the area subject to their control into vilayets and sanjaks. The northern and western part of historic Hungary, or so-called royal Hungary, became a part of the Habsburg Empire. In the eastern part of the former Hungarian kingdom a new state, which had never existed before came into existence. This was the princedom of Transylvania, which along with the two Roumanian principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia and the republic of Ragussa came to be considered as one of the sultan's Christian vassals.

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