The Siege of Sziget

This article is about the epic poem. For the siege, see Siege of Szigetvár.

The Siege of Sziget or The Peril of Sziget (Hungarian: Szigeti veszedelem, Latin: Obsidio Szigetiana) is a Hungarian epic poem in fifteen parts, written by Miklós Zrínyi in 1647 and published in 1651, about the final battle of his great-grandfather Nikola IV Zrinski (Miklós Zrínyi in Hungarian) against the Ottomans in 1566. The epic was originally published within the book Siren of the Adriatic Sea (Hungarian: Adriai tengernek Syrenaia) where it was accompanied by several lyric poems.

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