Pál Fodor
PhD, DSc, is a research professor and honorary director general at the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History. He is the president of the Hungarian Historical Society. He has published extensively on early Ottoman history, the social, economic, and military structure of the Ottoman Empire (up to the end of the 17th century), Ottoman political thought and OttomanâHungarian political relations. He is the author and editor of more than ten books and more than four hundred articles including In Quest of the Golden Apple: Imperial Ideology, Politics, and Military Administration in the Ottoman Empire (2000), The Unbearable Weight of Empire: The Ottomans in Central Europe â a Failed Attempt at Universal Monarchy (1390â1566) (2016), The Business of State: Ottoman Finance Administration and Ruling Elites in Transition, 1580sâ1615 (2018), 16. ve 17. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Kaynaklarında Sultan Süleymanâın Sigetvarâdaki Türbe Kasabası (2021).
Péter Gyenizse
PhD, is an associate professor at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Pécs. He is a geographer and GIS expert. In recent decades carried out landscape change and landscape reconstruction studies in Hungary, especially in South Transdanubia. In addition, he examines the impact of natural features on settlement development and creates city classification GIS models.
Erika Hancz
MA, has graduated in Archaeology and Turcology in the University of Szeged, Hungary. Then she continued her post graduate studies in the Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary. Since 2007 she is working at the University of Pécs, Faculty of Archaeology as a research fellow. She is majoring in Ottoman archaeology, especially architecture and ceramics. She is the leader archaeologist of the excavations in Szigetvár-Turbék, where the symbolic tomb of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificient was found with other buildings, inside of a former palisade castle and village which was built by the Ottoman Turks. She also write her articles mainly from this topic.
Máté Kitanics
PhD, is a research fellow of the Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs. Since 2012 he has been a member of the ZrÃnyi-Szulejmán Research Group, which identified and excavated the former Tomb of Sultan Suleiman and the nearby mosque and dervish monastery at Turbék near Szigetvár. Since
Sándor Konkoly
MSc, is a graduate geographer from the University of Pécs, Hungary. His field of research is historical geography and archaeological geology. In his work using interdisciplinary research methods, he deals with the historical geography of the Mohács Island and localization of its hidden fortified objects. In 2015, Zoltán Magyaryâs Board of Trustees of the Office of Public Administration and Justice awarded his professional and scientific achievements with the National Excellence Award. In 2021 he became involved in the Mohács battlefield research with his analytical investigations. He is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Earth Sciences of the University of Pécs, and is a member of the Pécs Military History Working Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Dénes Lóczy
PhD, DSc, is a graduate of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. At present he is professor of physical geography at the University of Pécs. His main fields of study are floodplain geomorphology, ecology and restoration; land evaluation and sustainable farming. He was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Germany. Now he is president of the Hungarian Geographical Society and Honorary Fellow of the International Association of Geomorphologists.
Tamás Morva
MSc, graduated as a geographer from the University of Pécs in 2013, and then studied geoinformatics as an MSc and PhD student. He has published in several areas of geography, later mainly in the field of landscape reconstruction and complex GIS-based classification systems. He is also interested in the interaction between natural and social geographical factors, in cartography and geomorphology.
Norbert Pap
PhD, Dsc, is a research professor of historical and political geography at the Szentágothai Research Centre and full professor at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Pécs. He has been working in Szigetvár since 2010, leading the research team concerning the death and the burial place of Sultan Suleiman since 2012. Moreover, his research activities cover the presence of Islam in East-Central Europe, furthermore the relationships between
Júlia Papp
PhD, DSc, is an art historian and senior research fellow at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Art History, Budapest. She graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Her main research areas are Hungarian fine arts in the 18â19th centuries and European artwork reproduction (photographs, plaster casts) in the 19th century. She published the oeuvre catalogue of the engraver Johann Blaschke in 2012, and she was the editor of the academic handbook about 19th century fine arts (2018). She organized several exhibitions (for example about the education of women in Hungary, the photographs of Roger Fenton, and artwork reproductions in the 19th century). Since 2018 she has been researching the 16â19th century fine art depictions of the Battle of Mohács in 1526 and King Louis II, who died in the battle.
Gábor Szalai
MSc, is a historical and political geographer, PhD candidate at the University of Pécs. He is a member of the ZrÃnyi-Szulejmán Research Group since 2015 and the âMohács 1526â2026 â Reconstruction and Remembranceâ Program since 2017. His fields of research cover the study of social, ethnic and religious geographies, sociogeography, including the study of local, mixed ethnic society of villages, and the government-organised population exchanges following World War I and their geopolitical consequences to this day.
Gábor Varga
PhD, graduated from the Janus Pannonius University of Pécs with a degree in geography. Here, at the same institution, but now at the University of Pécs, he obtained a PhD in geomorphology. Currently, he is Head of the Department of Physical and Environmental Geography at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences. His research interests focus on general surface evolution, landslide processes and forms, and periglacial geomorphology of the Carpathian Basin.