Siege Of Osijek (1537)
Siege of Osijek may refer to: * Failed Austrian siege of Ottoman-held Osijek in 1537 that led to the Battle of Gorjani * Battle of Osijek The Battle of Osijek () was the artillery bombardment of the Croatian city of Osijek by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) which took place from August 1991 to June 1992 during the Croatian War of Independence. Shelling peaked in late November an ...

Battle Of Gorjani
The Battle of Gorjani (, ) or Battle of Đakovo () was fought on 9 October 1537 at Gorjani, a place in present-day Slavonia (today in eastern Croatia), between the towns of Đakovo and Valpovo, as part of the Little War in Hungary as well as the Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War. Background After seven years of war and the failed Siege of Vienna in 1529, the Treaty of Konstantiniyye was signed, in which John Zápolya was recognized by the Austrians as King of Hungary as an Ottoman vassal, and the Ottomans recognized Habsburg rule over Royal Hungary. This treaty satisfied neither John Zápolya nor Austrian Archduke Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand, whose armies began to skirmish along the borders. Ferdinand decided to strike a decisive blow in 1537 at John, thereby violating the treaty. Battle Ferdinand sent an army of 24,000 men (from Archduchy of Austria, Austria, Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867), Hungary, Holy Roman Empire, Bohemia, County of Tyrol, Tyrol, a ...
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