Principality of Upper Hungary
{{short description|Former vassal state of the Ottoman Empire}}
{{Infobox country
| native_name = {{lang|hu|Felső-Magyarországi Fejedelemség}}
{{lang|sk|Hornouhorské kniežatstvo}}
{{lang|tr|Orta Macar}}
| conventional_long_name = Principality of Upper Hungary
| common_name = Hungary
| status = Vassal state of the Ottoman Empire
| p1 = Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867){{!}}Kingdom of Hungary
| s1 = Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867){{!}}Kingdom of Hungary
| today = Slovakia, Hungary, Romania
| image_flag = Thokoly imre zaszlaja.jpg
| flag_border = no
| flag_type = Banner
| image_coat =
| coa_size = 90px
| symbol_type = Coat of arms
| image_map = Central europe 1683.png
| image_map_caption = Principality of Upper Hungary in 1683
| capital = Kassa (present-day Košice)
| government_type = Principality
| title_leader = Prince
| leader1 = Emeric Thököly
| year_leader1 = 1682-1685
| era =
| date_start = November 19,
| year_start = 1682
| date_end = October 15,
| year_end = 1685
}}
The Principality of Upper Hungary[https://books.google.com/books?id=fJXyAAAAMAAJ&q=%22principality+of+Upper+Hungary%22 Hadtörténelmi közlemények, Volume 118, Issues 3-4], Hadtörténeti Intézet és Múzeum, 2005, p. 409 ({{langx|hu|Felső-Magyarországi Fejedelemség}}; {{langx|sk|Hornouhorské kniežatstvo}}; {{langx|tr|Orta Macar}}){{TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi|url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/tokoli-imre|title=TÖKÖLİ, İmre (ö. 1705) Osmanlılar’a bağlı Orta Macar kralı ve Erdel prensi.|author=Sándor Papp}} was a short-lived vassal state of the Ottoman Empire ruled by Emeric Thököly.
Background
{{Further|Upper Hungary}}
After peace treaty of Vasvár was signed in 1664, loyalty felt by Hungarians towards the Habsburg dynasty was in decline. The Hungarian nobility was dissatisfied by Emperor Leopold I's refusal to capitalize on the victory at the Battle of Saint Gotthard to liberate more of the Hungarian lands from the Ottomans, and the subsequent Imperial administration of Hungary was seen as acting against interests of the Hungarian estates. In 1671 a rebellion was successfully thwarted. However, a year later Mihály Teleki led a more successful rebellion. In 1673 the Emperor appointed Johann Caspar von Ampringen, the Teutonic Grandmaster as governor of Royal Hungary, precipitating a harsh crackdown on disloyal nobles and Protestants which further increased the resentment of the Hungarian nobility against the Habsburgs. In 1680 Imre Thököly became the leading figure of the rebellion, which started being supported and sustained by the Ottoman state and the Principality of Transylvania.{{cite book|author1=Balázs Trencsényi|author2=Márton Zászkaliczky|title=Whose Love of Which Country?: Composite States, National Histories and Patriotic Discourses in Early Modern East Central Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyRbB0mbSsUC&pg=PA547|year=2010|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-18262-2|page=547}}{{cite book|author=István Keul|title=Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe: Ethnic Diversity, Denominational Plurality, and Corporative Politics in the Principality of Transylvania (1526-1691)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5J09mqMWiogC&pg=PA219|year=2009|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-17652-2|page=219}}
Establishment and later history
The principality was established on 19 November 1682.J. János Varga, A fogyó félhold árnyékában, Gondolat, Budapest, 1986, p. 31 The polity agreed to pay 20,000 gold coins to the Ottomans annually.{{cite web|url=http://mek.oszk.hu/01800/01885/html/index1.html|title=Kereszt és félhold|website=mek.oszk.hu}} In 1685 Thököly was defeated at Eperjes (present-day Prešov) and the Turks imprisoned him because of his previous negotiations with Leopold therefore his realm ceased to exist.
See also
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Category:Ottoman period in Hungary
Category:Ottoman period in Slovakia
Category:17th century in Hungary
Category:17th century in Slovakia
Category:1682 establishments in Europe
Category:1685 disestablishments in Europe
Category:1682 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
Category:1685 disestablishments in the Ottoman Empire
Category:States and territories disestablished in 1685