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2 unusual facts about John Zápolya


Parliament on Cetin

At the session on 10 November 1526, the majority of the Hungarian Diet chose John Zápolya to be the king, while the minority elected Archduke Ferdinand in the rump diet in Bratislava on 16 December 1526.

On January 6, 1527, the Slavonian nobility distanced themselves from this election and nominated John Zápolya the rival claimant to the Hungarian throne instead.


Wallachia

Radu Paisie, who was deposed by Süleyman in 1545, ceded the port of Brăila to Ottoman administration in the same year; his successor Mircea Ciobanul (1545–1554; 1558–1559), a prince without any claim to noble heritage, was imposed on the throne and consequently agreed to a decrease in autonomy (increasing taxes and carrying out an armed intervention in Transylvania—supporting the pro-Turkish John Zápolya).


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