Siege of Güns
1532 CE.
Shown on the map at 47.388°, 16.542°.
The siege of Kőszeg (Hungarian: Kőszeg ostroma) or siege of Güns (Turkish: Güns Kuşatması), also known as the German campaign (Turkish: Alman Seferi) was a siege of Kőszeg (German: Güns) in the Western Kingdom of Hungary which ruled by Ferdinand I, a Habsburg king, that took place in 1532. During the siege, the defending forces of the Habsburg monarchy under the leadership of Croatian Captain Nikola Jurišić (Hungarian: Jurisics Miklós), defended the small border fort of Kőszeg with fewer than 50 soldiers and only 700 Hungarian villagers, with no cannons and few guns. The defenders prevented the advance of the Ottoman army of over 100,000 toward Vienna, under the leadership of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (Ottoman Turkish: سليمان, romanized: Süleymān) and Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha. The exact outcome is unknown since there are two versions that differ. In the first version, Nikola Jurišić rejected the offer to surrender on favourable terms; in the second version, the city was offered terms for a nominal surrender, which the garrison accepted.
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