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