KARAMAN'DAN SİGETVAR'A: BİR EYALET
ÖLÇEĞİNDE KANUNİ SULTAN SÜLEYMAN'IN SON
MACARİSTAN SEFERİ
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FROM KARAMAN TO SİGETVAR. KANUNI SULTAN
SÜLEYMAN'S
HUNGARY EXPEDITION ACCORDING TO A PROVINCE
SCALE.
Summary
The historians express different reasons
for the Kanuni's last expedition. These have
to be studied in two groups; cease-fire
violation of the Austrians which was done for 8 years between the Ottomans and
Austria in 1562, again within the context of this agreement the avoiding of
paying the annual-tax to the Ottoman State, Maximiliam's attack to the Ottoman
protectorate Erdel after his father Ferdinand's death in 1564, that they could not
hinder the border violation, that solid fortresses like as Eğri and Sigetvar
developed into bandit bases and these bandits tyrannized the people in Ottoman
citizenship and their frequently attacks to Ottoman garrisons. Besides these
external reasons, internal factors like as that the sultan did not lead his
army in expedition for 13 years, and the aim to slip the Malta flop (1565) from
the memory, the problem the prince lights (1559) caused to the sultan, the
death of the expedition-opponent Sadrazam Semiz Ali Pasha and the succession of
Sokullu Mehmed Pasha who supported the expedition were important. But it is
without no doubt the most important reason was the goal to ensure the security
of the Ottoman areas behind the Danube, which began in 1526 and then frequently
expanded.
