| Hungarian campaign of Suleiman | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars | |||||||||
 "The Great Gun", a 1518 allegorical representation by Albrecht Dürer of the Turkish menace for the German lands. | |||||||||
| |||||||||
| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Habsburg Austria Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of Bohemia Kingdom of Croatia Ferdinand's Hungarian kingdom |
 Ottoman Empire Moldavia_(1526-1540).svg){kind=small} John Szapolyai's Hungarian kingdom | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
|
Ferdinand I |
Suleiman the Magnificent Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha John Szapolyai Peter IV Rareș | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Unknown |
120,000 soldiers[1] (including 12,000 Janissaries)[2] 20,000 camels 300 guns 6,000 Hungarian horsemen[2] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
|
20,000 dead (soldiers and civilians)[2] | 40,000 dead[2] | ||||||||
Suleiman I's campaign of 1529 was launched by the Ottoman Empire to take the Austrian capital Vienna and thereby strike a decisive blow, allowing the Ottomans to consolidate their hold on Hungary. This was in response to Ferdinand I's daring assault on Ottoman Hungary.