Siege of Pest

{{short description|Siege during Ottoman–Habsburg wars}}

{{Infobox military conflict

|conflict=Siege of Pest

|image=Siege of Pest Enea Vico 1542.jpg

|caption=Siege of Pest, after Enea Vico, 1542

|partof=the Ottoman–Habsburg War of 1540–1547

|date=1542

|place=Buda and Pest, Hungary (Budapest)

|result=Ottoman victory,
Ottomans repulse Habsburgs

|combatant1=Ottoman Empire

|combatant2=Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Croatia
Papal States
Duchy of Milan
Republic of Venice

|commander1= Suleiman the Magnificent

|commander2=Joachim Brandenburg
Alessandro Vitelli
Hans von Ungnad
Nikola IV Zrinski

|strength1=2,000 Janissaries, 10,000 Sipahi and irregular troops

|strength2=~60,000 soldiers, 60 guns

|casualties1=Unknown

|casualties2=Heavy

}}

{{Campaignbox Little War in Hungary}}

The siege of Pest (modern city of Budapest, Hungary) occurred in 1542, when Ferdinand I attempted to recover the cities of Buda and Pest in 1542 from the Ottoman Empire.[https://books.google.com/books?id=VJM3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA524 E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, Vol 2 by Martijn Theodoor Houtsma p.524] They had been occupied by the Ottomans under Suleiman since the siege of Buda (1541).

The siege was led by Joachim of Brandenburg.Anett Puskár, "Noble Strategies for Maintaining Power: Reflections on the Life of a Hungarian Aristocrat", in Power and Culture: Identity, Ideology, Representation, edited by Jonathan Osmond and Ausma Cimdin̦a (Edizioni Plus, 2007), [https://books.google.com/books?id=qJ9u6sgUOikC&pg=PA20 p. 20]. The siege was repulsed by the Ottomans, who would remain in control of central Hungary for the following 150 years.