Szigetvár
Szigetvár [ siɡɛtva ː r] (German island castle, Croatian: Siget ) is a small town in southern Hungary Baranya county with 10,868 inhabitants ( 2011).
The castle of the same name in 1566 was the scene of the Battle of Szigetvár whose output was the conquest of the fortress by the Turks and the more than 20,000 combatants brought death. During the battle, not the Turkish Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent died, however, as a result of the fighting.
It was not until 1689, the city was retaken by the Hungarians.
Attractions
The castle, the remains of which had been destroyed by the Turks, was restored after 1960.
From the Turkish occupation the former mosque Ali Pasha come to the Zrinský Square, originally built in 1569 with two minarets, which was in 1788 rebuilt into a baroque Roman Catholic church. On the battlefield on the outskirts of a park in the Turkish-Hungarian friendship has been created in 1996 with a monument that shows the two adversaries of the Battle of 1566.
Sources with 63 -degree hot salt and iodized water feed a thermal bath which is to bring in rheumatic pain relief.
Other language place names
- Turkish: Zigetvar
- Croatian: Siget
- Serbian Сигетвар / Sigetvar
Twinning
Szigetvár maintains partnership relations with
- Finland Imatra, Finland
- Germany Epping, Germany
- Croatia Slatina, Croatia
- Turkey Trabzon, Turkey
- Romania Deva, Romania