Siege of Bihać (1592) 1592
Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Year | 1592 | Wikidata P580 (start time) |
|---|---|---|
| Era | Early modern (1500–1799) | derived from year |
| Location | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Europe | Natural Earth |
| War / conflict | Ottoman Wars in Europe | Wikidata P361 |
| Coordinates | 44.8167, 15.8667 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
The city of Bihać in the Kingdom of Croatia within the Habsburg monarchy was besieged and captured by the Ottoman Empire in June 1592. With the arrival of Hasan-paša Predojević as the Beylerbey of the Bosnia Eyalet in 1591, a period of peace established between Emperor Rudolf II and Sultan Murad III ended and the provincial Ottoman armies launched an offensive on Croatia. Bihać, a nearly isolated city on the Una River that repelled an Ottoman attack in 1585, was one of the first targets. Thomas Erdődy, the Ban of Croatia, used available resources and soldiers to protect the border towns, but the Ottomans managed to take several smaller forts in 1591. As the offensive gained pace, the Croatian Parliament passed a law to permit a general uprising in the country on 5 January 1592 for fighting the Ottomans.
In early June 1592, Hasan Pasha led his troops towards Bihać, which was defended by around 500 soldiers and commanded by Captain Joseph von Lamberg. The siege lasted from 10 June to 19 June, when Lamberg surrendered the city due to a lack of reinforcements and an insufficient number of defending troops. Lamberg, for this act, was later tried for treason.
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