Ottoman Capture of Buda

Date: August 29, 1541 • Location: Budapest XI. kerület, Hungary

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1541–1686.

The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.

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.