H. Kolba Judit szerk.: Historical Exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum Guide 2 - From the Foundation of the State until the Expulsion of the Ottomans - The history of Hungary in the 11th to 17th centuries (Budapest, 2005)

ROOM 6 - Hungary Split into Three Parts. The Ottoman Occupation (second half of the 16th century-17th century) (Ibolya Gerelyes)

48. Memorial tablet from the bastion of Mahmud pasha, Buda, 1699 and the grotesque motifs an admiration for the relics of Ancient Rome. The name F. Marone, which features on the representation of a book, can be considered the signature of the Italian master who executed the choir-stalls of Nyírbátor. THE OTTOMANS IN HUNGARY After the seizure of Buda Castle by the Ottomans (1541) and the campaign of Sultan Suleyman in 1543, the conquerors settled down and shaped the administrative organization of the regions under their control according to their own policy. At the head of the province-like great regional units, the vilayets, stood a pasha or begler begi, often with the rank of vizier. The vilayets were divided into sanjaks under the control of a sanjak begi, and the sanjaks consisted of a number of smaller units, the so-called nahiyes. By 1550 eleven sanjaks had been formed in the occupied parts of Hungary, and at the same time a census of