Capture of Belgrade

Date: August 29, 1521 • Location: Belgrade, Serbia

The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).

The Ottoman Turks were an Oghuz Turkic ethnic group in Anatolia. Originally from Central Asia, they migrated to Anatolia in the 13th century and founded the Ottoman Empire, in which they remained socio-politically dominant for the entirety of the six centuries that it existed. Their descendants are the present-day Turkish people, who comprise the majority of the population in the Republic of Turkey, which was established shortly after the end of World War I.