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MOHÁCS<br />
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Mohács, situated on the Danube-bank near Pécs, was one of the independent settlements of the settler Magyars. The<br />
name of Mohács is interwoven with a sad and mournful event in Hungarian history: the Hungarians were defeated on 29<br />
August 1526 in a battle against the Turks by the armies of Sultan Suleiman near the town, and in the battle the king was<br />
also killed. In commemoration of his death, a memorial column was erected in 1867 in the place of the battle. This battle<br />
survives in history as the ’Mohács Disaster’. Later, Germans from the Rhineland and Southern Slavs settled here. Half of<br />
the town’s population is non-Hungarian today.
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