Kováts Valéria: A szigetvári Zrínyi Miklósd Múzeum kiállításai. (A Janus Pannonius Múzeum Füzetei 10. Pécs, 1966)

EXHIBITION OF THE HISTORY OF THE FORTRESS SZIGETVÁR The expanding Turkish empire took possession of the middle part of Hungary in the course of its expansion towards West. Sultan Sulayman II. besieged the fortress of Szigetvár with his army of 100 thousend soldiers in his seventh campaign against Hungary. The defenders hardly 2 500 Hungarian and Croatian soldiers, headed by captain Miklós Zrínyi, defended the fortress, for a month, which the Turkish troops could capture only after the death of the defenders. Fortress of Szigetvár flatened to the ground fell into Turkish hands, but the Turkis army was not able to carry on its campaign westwards. The Sultan himself deceased during the siege. Szigetvár fell but Vienna and the Hapsburg empire escaped. The exhibition of the Miklós Zrínyi Múzeum recalls one of the hardest period of Hungary at the very spot of these events. It shows the history of the fortress; its part in the struggle against the Turks it reminds us of the soldiers of the heroic battles, of the heroic resistence of Miklós Zrínyi and his comrades, of the sad period of the Turkish occupation. Passage. It gives sketchy information on the history of the construction of the fortress. It presents some ruins of buildings wich have been brought to the surface by excavation, it shows the last scene of the heroic fight, the place of the sally. Room I. It raises a monument to the memory of the life — and — death struggle of the country, converted into a field of war for half a century and after the tragic end of the battle at Mohács. It informs us about the importance of the border fortress system having come into existence in the course of the defence against the Turks, as well as of about the seven campaings of Sultan Sulayman II. conducted against Hungary.