Eastern Hungarian Kingdom
| Eastern Hungarian Kingdom | ||||||||||
| Keleti Magyar Királyság | ||||||||||
| Vassal state of the Ottoman Empire | ||||||||||
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 Eastern Hungarian Kingdom around 1550
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Buda (1526–41) Lippa (1541–42) Gyulafehérvár (1542–70) |
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| Government | Monarchy | |||||||||
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| • | 1526–1540 | John I (first) | ||||||||
| • | 1540–1570 | John II (last) | ||||||||
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| • | Coronation of John I | 11 November 1526 | ||||||||
| • | John I swore fealty to the Sultan | 19 August 1529 | ||||||||
| • | Treaty of Nagyvárad | 24 February 1538 | ||||||||
| • | Treaty of Speyer | 16 August 1570 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Hungary Romania Slovakia Ukraine Serbia
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The Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (in Hungarian: Keleti Magyar Királyság) is the modern name used to designate the realm of John Zápolya and his son John Sigismund Zápolya, who contested the claims of the House of Habsburg to rule the Kingdom of Hungary from 1526 to 1570. The Zápolyas ruled over an eastern part of Hungary, while the Habsburg kings (Ferdinand and Maximilian) ruled the west. The Habsburgs tried several times to unite all Hungary under their rule, but the Ottoman Empire prevented this by supporting the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.
The exact extent of the Zápolya realm was never settled, because the Habsburgs and the Zápolyas both claimed the whole kingdom. A temporary territorial division was made in the Treaty of Nagyvárad in 1538. The Eastern Hungarian Kingdom is the predecessor of the Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711), established by the Treaty of Speyer (1570).
In 1526, Hungary was defeated by the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Mohács, and King Louis II of Hungary was killed. The Ottomans withdrew their troops and did not then seek to conquer.
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