Editing Battle of Mohács (section)

==Aftermath==
{{Main|Hungarian campaign of 1527–1528|Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary (1526–1568)|Ottoman Hungary}}
[[File:Suleiman_I_after_the_victory_at_Mohács.jpg|200px|thumb|Suleiman I after the victory at Mohács, [[Ottoman miniature]]]]
The victory did not give the Ottomans the security they wanted. Buda was left undefended; only the French and Venetian ambassadors waited for the Sultan to congratulate him on his great victory.<ref name="Bodolai 9">{{cite book|title=The Timeless Nation – The History, Literature, Music, Art and Folklore of the Hungarian Nation|first =Zoltán | last = Bodolai|year=1978|publisher=Hungaria Publishing Company|chapter=Chapter 9. Darkness After Noon | chapter-url= http://www.hungarianhistory.com/lib/timeless/chapter09.htm |access-date= 19 November 2015}}</ref> Though they entered the unguarded evacuated [[Buda]] and pillaged the castle and surroundings, they retreated soon afterwards. It was not until 1541 that the Ottomans finally captured and occupied Buda following the [[Siege of Buda (1541)|1541 Siege of Buda]]. However, for all intents and purposes, the Battle of Mohács meant the end of the independent [[Kingdom of Hungary]] as a unified entity.  Amid political chaos, the divided [[Nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary|Hungarian nobility]] elected two kings simultaneously, [[John Zápolya]] in 1526 and [[Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand of Austria]] in 1527. The Ottoman occupation was contested by the [[Habsburg]] Archduke of Austria, Ferdinand I, Louis's brother-in-law and successor by treaty with King [[Vladislaus II of Hungary|Vladislaus II]].

Bohemia fell to the [[Habsburgs]], who also dominated the northern and western parts of Hungary and the remnants of the [[Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg)|Kingdom of Croatia]], while the Ottomans held central Hungary and suzerainty over semi-independent [[Transylvania]]. This provided the Hungarians with sufficient impetus to continue to resist the Ottoman occupation, which they did for another seventy years.
[[File:Partition of Hungary.png|200px|left|thumb|Kingdom of Hungary before 1526, and the 3 parts into which it was divided after the Battle of Mohács: Royal Hungary, Transylvania, and the part that was annexed by the Ottoman Empire.]]
The Austrian branch of Habsburg monarchs needed the economic power of Hungary for the Ottoman wars. During the Ottoman wars the territory controlled by the Kingdom of Hungary shrank by around 60%. Despite these territorial and demographic losses, the smaller, heavily war-torn [[Royal Hungary]] remained as economically important as the Austrian hereditary lands or the Bohemian crown lands in the late 16th century.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Evans, Peter Wilson|title=The Holy Roman Empire, 1495–1806: A European Perspective Volume 1 van Brill's Companions to European History|publisher=Brill|page=263|year=2012|isbn=9789004206830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rSON55zorLsC&q=Austria+Moh%C3%A1cs+revenues+%22kingdom+of+hungary%22+population&pg=PA263}}</ref> Of Ferdinand's territories, the depleted Kingdom of Hungary was at that time his largest source of revenue.<ref>Dr. István Kenyeres: The Financial Administrative Reforms and Revenues of Ferdinand I in Hungary, English summary at p. 92 Link1: [http://www.tti.hu/images/kiadvanyok/folyoiratok/tsz/tsz2003-1-2/061-092_Kenyeres.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606002452/http://www.tti.hu/images/kiadvanyok/folyoiratok/tsz/tsz2003-1-2/061-092_Kenyeres.pdf |date=6 June 2017 }} Link2: [https://archive.org/details/061092Kenyeres1]</ref>

The subsequent near constant warfare required a sustained commitment of Ottoman forces, proving a drain on resources that the largely rural and war-torn kingdom proved unable to repay. Crusader armies besieged Buda several times during the 16th century. Sultan Suleiman himself died of natural causes in Hungary during the [[Battle of Szigetvár]] in 1566. There were also two unsuccessful Ottoman sieges of [[Eger]], which did not fall until 1596, seventy years after the Ottoman victory at Mohács. The Turks proved unable to conquer the northern and western parts of Hungary, which belonged to the Habsburg monarchs.

A book on the Turkish culture was written by Georgius Bartholomaeus with information obtained from Christian troops released by the Ottomans after the battle.<ref name="Bartholomaeus1567">{{cite book|author=Georgius Bartholomaeus|title=De Turcarum moribus epitome|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9zRbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA26|year=1567|publisher=apud Ioan. Tornaesium|pages=26–}}</ref><ref name="Nykl1948">{{cite book|author=Alois Richard Nykl|title=Gonzalo de Argote y de Molina's Discurso sobre la poesía castellana contenida en este libro (i.e. El libro de Patronio o El conde Lucanor) and Bartholomaeus Gjorgjević|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-OdeAAAAMAAJ&q=debet+placuit+exempli+gratia+pauca+sunt|year=1948|publisher=J.H. Furst|page=13}}</ref><ref name="Aksulu2005">{{cite book|author=N. Melek Aksulu|title=Bartholomäus Georgievićs Türkenschrift"De Turcarum ritu et caeremomiis" (1544) und ihre beiden deutschen Übersetzungen von 1545: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Türkenbildes in Europa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s1NpAAAAMAAJ&q=debet+placuit+exempli+gratia+pauca+sunt|year=2005|publisher=Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz|isbn=978-3-88099-422-5|page=142}}</ref>