Pengepungan Szigetvár

Siege of Szigetvár; Battle of Szigeth
	Bagian dari Perang Utsmaniyah–Habsburg; dan Perang Utsmaniyah di Eropa
	; Johann Peter Krafft: Nikola Šubić Zrinski's charge from the fortress of Szigetvár (1825)
Tanggal	6 August 1566 – 8 September 1566
Lokasi	46°03′02″N 17°47′50″E / 46.050663°N 17.797354°E, Szigetvár, Baranya, Hungaria, Kekaisaran Habsburg
Hasil	Ottoman pyrrhic victory
Pihak terlibat
Kekaisaran Habsburg; Kerajaan Hungaria; Kerajaan Kroasia;	Ottoman Empire; Moldavia;
Tokoh dan pemimpin
Kekuatan
2,300–3,000 Croats and Hungarians 600 able-bodied men by the end of the siege;	100,000–300,000 80,000 Orang Utsmaniya; 12,000–15,000 Orang Tatar; 7,000 Orang Moldavia;
Korban
Heavy;; Nicholas Zrinsky meninggal di akhir pertempuran.; Almost entire garrison wiped out. 2,300–3,000 killed in combat.;	Heavy;; Suleiman dies during siege of natural causes.; 20,000–30,000 killed or died of sickness.;

Pengepungan Szigetvar atau Pertempuran Szigeth(Hungaria:Szigetvári csata, Kroasia:Bitka kod Sigeta, Turki: Zigetvar Savaşı) adalah sebuah pengepungan Benteng Szigeth di Baranya(dekat perbatasan Hungaria/Kroasia sekarang) yang dihadang oleh garis terdepan Suleiman menuju Wina pada tahun 1566.^[11] Pertempuran terjadi antara pasukan pembela Habsburg dibawah kepemimpinan Ban Kroasia Nikola Šubić Zrinski (bahasa Hungaria: Zrínyi Miklós), dan invasi tentara Utsmaniyah dibawah komando Sultan Suleiman yang Agung ([[Bahasa Turki Utsmani|Turki Utsmani:سليمان Süleymān).^[11]

Catatan

^ Although the Turks won the battle, the outcome can be seen as a "pyrrhic victory", because of a heavy Turkish casualties and the death of Sultan Suleiman. Moreover, the battle delayed the Ottoman push for Vienna that year and suspended the Ottoman expansion in Europe.
^ The majority of the defenders were ethnic Croats, which is clearly mentioned in the only first-hand report of the siege, written in "Podsjedanje i osvojenje Sigeta" by Franjo (Ferenc) Črnko, Zrinsky's chamberlain, and one of the surviving soldiers from the battle. Later works "Vazetje Sigeta grada" (1573) by Brne Karnarutić, "Szigeti veszedelem" (1647) by Nicholas VII Zrinsky, and "Opsida Sigecka" (1647) by Peter Zrinsky, also prove that Croats were a majority among the defenders.
^ The number of 300,000 Ottomans mentioned by some chroniclers, is probably overestimated. There is some tendency by some historians to exaggerate these figures to overstate the bravery of the outnumbered defenders of Szigetvár. Although, on 1 May 1566, Suleiman did left Istanbul at the head of one of the largest armies he had ever commanded, the number of his forces was probably closer to 100,000 than to 300,000.

^ Kohn (2006), p. 47.
^ Lázár and Tezla (1999), p. 70.
^ Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers, Item 548456. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
^ ^a ^b Kesalahan pengutipan: Tag <ref> tidak sah; tidak ditemukan teks untuk ref bernama Lieber 345
^ Wheatcroft (2009), pp. 59–60.
^ Turnbull (2003), p. 57.
^ Shelton (1867), pp. 82–83.
^ Elliott (2000), p. 117.
^ Tait (1853), p. 679.
^ Kesalahan pengutipan: Tag <ref> tidak sah; tidak ditemukan teks untuk ref bernama Coppée 562-565
^ ^a ^b Turnbull (2003), p. 56.