Battle of Keresztes
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| Battle of Keresztes | |||||||
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| Part of the Long War (Ottoman wars) | |||||||
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| Ottoman Empire [1] | Habsburg Austria Transylvania |
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| Mehmed III | Archduke Maximilian Sigismund of Transylvania |
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The Battle of Keresztes or Battle of Mezokeresztes (Mezökeresztes) took place on October 24-26, 1596, between a combined Habsburg-Transylvanian force and the Ottoman Empire, near the village of Mezokeresztes in northern Hungary. The battle ended in an unexpected Ottoman victory.
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- ^ The Historians' History of the World By Henry Smith Williams - Page 439
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