Mohács

American  

[moh-hahch] / ˈmoʊ hɑtʃ /

noun

1. a city in S Hungary, on the Danube River: site of battles with Turkish forces, 1526 and 1687.

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Example Sentences

Again, when, after the battle of Mohács, we threw off the Hungarian yoke, we of the Dracula blood were amongst their leaders, for our spirit would not brook that we were not free.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

In 1526, when the battle of Mohács placed Hungary at the mercy of the Turks, Maximilian's grandson Ferdinand, in his wife's name, united Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia with the Austrian duchies.

From The War and Democracy by

He besieged and captured Belgrade, and in 1526 on the field of Mohács his forces met and overwhelmed the Hungarians, whose king was killed with the flower of the Hungarian chivalry.

From A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Hayes, Carlton J. H.

The battle of Mohács marked the extinction of an independent and united Hungarian state; Ferdinand of Habsburg, brother of Charles V, claimed the kingdom; Suleiman was in actual possession of fully a third of it.

From A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Hayes, Carlton J. H.