The Turkish Invasion
In the early C16th the Ottoman's expanded their great Empire westward
through Central Europe. After the Turkish victory at the Battle
of Mohac in 1526, the Kingdom of Hungary was badly defeated and
found itself divided into three separate parts.
The territory that is present day Hungary was now under Turkish
rule, while another part, Transylvania, became a Turkish protectorate
vassal, controlled by the Ottoman Empire. That left only Slovakia,
which managed to withstand the Turkish Invasion.
Slovakia now found itself the center of the Hungarian State. All
important Hungarian political, administrative and religious institutions
moved to Slovakia.
Although, Slovakia had not felt the full force of the Turkish Invasion,
as Hungary had done, its situation was about to change for the worse.
No longer was the relationship with Hungary a 'tenant - landlord'
one, the Turkish Invasion had forced the two very different peoples
to be intertwined, which would eventually have dire consequences
on Slovakia as a nation.
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