Palla Ákos szerk.: Az Országos Orvostörténeti Könyvtár közleményei 24. (Budapest, 1962)

The deads of the battle of Mohács

Summing up the result of the researches made in archives and material gathered from other sources we were able, in the course of the excavations made in 1961, to shed light on the problem of the village "Földvár" mentioned by Brodarics. According to historians and military writers this village stood on the western side of the battlefield but it is a fact that Földvár was situated on its opposite side, near the Törökdamb, on the territory actually occupied by the state-farm Sátorhely. The cemetary and a few pitiful remains of the village could be identified. The village mistakenly called "Földvár" by Brodarics was in fact the village Merse. Its site has also been ascertained though it was entirely destroyed in the battle. We hope that from the preceding expositions the importance of the village Merse for future research has been made quite clear. We shall now be able to start our future work from this point and do hope that excavations to be made northeast from Merse shall reveal the core of the battlefield. NOTES 1. József Thury: Török-Magyarkori Történeti Emlékek. - Török Történetírók. I. 18. o. Bpest, 1893. (Turkish Historians.) 2. Antal Verancsics: Memoria rerum que in Hungária nato rege Ludvico ultimo acciderunt. qui fuit ultimi Ladislai filius. - Monumenta Hungáriáé Historica Scriptores III. - (Communication by László Szalay. Pest, 1857.) 3. Miklós Istvánffi: Magyarország története 1490-1606. - (History of Hungary. 1490-1606. - Translated by György Vidovich. Debrecen, 1867.) 4. Jenő Gyalokay: A mohácsi csata. - Mohácsi Emlékkönyv, Budapest, 1926. (The battle of Mohács.) 5. László Papp: A mohácsi csatahely kutatása. — Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve, i960. - Pécs, 1961. (The search for the battlefield of Mohács.) 6. We want to observe that we did not alter the positions of the skeletons and left the bones untouched. According to an agreement with the Archaeological Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences we covered the graves with an appropriate layer of sand and earth, after having finished our work. About the skeletons laying under the topmost stratum we know only as much as could have been gathered from the parts stocking out here and there.