This time, the Ottoman advance toward Vienna was halted by the stubborn defense of a small Habsburg fortress: Neuhausel (now Nove Zamky) on the Nitra River, which flows into the Danube. The siege dragged on for weeks, and by the time the city was taken, the season was too late to risk getting stuck in mud and snow. It was a story we’d seen before at Koszeg in 1532, Eger in 1552, Szigetvar in 1541 and 1566, and finally at Nove Zamky in 1663.
