 Turks also had a suzerainty over the Principality of Upper Hungary, which controlled eastern Slovakia.Decades after the Hungarian defeat of Mohacs (1526) Turkish troops controlled Štúrovo (Párkány) and other parts of today's southern central Slovakia and encouraged the Protestant Christian groups while Habsburg Austrian troops occupied and recatholized the northern and western parts.Later on the Turks seized some further territories in southern central Slovakia and pillaged in territories up to Nitra.