A Hungarian Border Fortress on the Banks of the Sava River: The Siege of Szabács, 1476 - Hungarian Conservative

A Hungarian Border Fortress on the Banks of the Sava River: The Siege of Szabács, 1476 - Hungarian Conservative

The castle of Szabács (today’s Šabac, Serbia) was built by the Ottomans in 1471/72, 50 kilometres west of Belgrade on the right bank of the Sava River. The castle, well-fortified with artillery, was made virtually impregnable by the marshy terrain surrounding it and the water of the Sava River flowing into the castle’s moat. The castle was small in size and seemingly insignificant, but King Matthias of Hungary (r. 1458–1490) recognized its strat…