Eastern Hungarian Kingdom

Eastern Hungarian Kingdom
keleti Magyar Királyság (Hungarian)
1526–1551
1556–1570
Coat of arms of Eastern Hungarian Kingdom
Coat of arms
Eastern Hungarian Kingdom around 1550
Eastern Hungarian Kingdom around 1550
StatusVassal state of the Ottoman Empire
CapitalBuda (1526–41)
Lippa (now Lipova) (1541–42)[1]
Gyulafehérvár (now Alba Iulia) (1542–70)
Demonym(s)Hungarian
GovernmentMonarchy
King 
• 1526–1540 (first)
John I
• 1540–1570 (last)
John II
History 
• Coronation of John I
11 November 1526
• John I swore fealty to the Sultan
19 August 1529
24 February 1538
16 August 1570
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kingdom of Hungary (1301–1526)
Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)

The Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (Hungarian: keleti Magyar Királyság [ˈkɛlɛti ˈmɒɟɒr ˈkiraːjʃaːg]) is a modern term coined by some historians 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, and the Habsburg kings (Ferdinand and Maximilian) ruled the west.[2] The Habsburgs tried several times to unite all Hungary under their rule, but the Ottoman Empire prevented that by supporting the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.[3]

The exact extent of the Zápolya realm was never settled because both the Habsburgs and the Zápolyas claimed the whole kingdom. A temporary territorial division was made in the Treaty of Nagyvárad in 1538. The Eastern Hungarian Kingdom is considered the predecessor of the Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711), which was established by the Treaty of Speyer.[4]

  1. ^ Dorothy Margaret Vaughan, Europe and the Turk: a pattern of alliances, 1350-1700, AMS Press, 1954, p. 126
  2. ^ Béla Köpeczi, History of Transylvania, Volume 2, Social Science Monographs, 2001, p. 593
  3. ^ Robert John Weston Evans, T. V. Thomas. Crown, Church and Estates: Central European politics in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Macmillan, 1991, pp. 80–81
  4. ^ Iván Boldizsár, NHQ; the new Hungarian quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 1, Lapkiadó Pub. House, 1981, p. 64

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