Murad, not yet fifty, dies on January…

Murad, not yet fifty, dies on January 15/16, 1595.

At the outset of the reign of his son and successor, Mehmed III, the war against Austria has already been in progress for two years.

The Porte has meanwhile lost control of so much of central Hungary and the principalities that the next several years—eleven, as it turns out—must be devoted to recovering these territories.