Exploration in search of the tomb of Sultan Suleiman I and
the buildings around it in the vicinity of Szigetvár,
Baranya county, southern Hungary, has been going on for some
one hundred years and on a number of sites
(on the banks of Almás stream, at St. Mary’s Church in
Turbék). On the basis of newly discovered documents
and map representations, the authors have carried out a
reinterpretation of earlier known sources and have
abstracted from these information appropriate for a renewed
geographical identification of the site of the
tomb. The results have been construed in a reconstructed end-
17th-century landscape using geoinformation
methods. Identification of the Ottoman settlement at Turbék,
which can be associated with the construction
of the Sultan’s türbe (tomb), was made possible through the
collection of finds on the surface of the archaeological
site at the Turbék vineyard, the increased intensity of finds
and through geophysical examination. The
little town was a unique settlement in occupied Hungary,
standing between 1574 and 1692 as a symbol of the
Islamic conquest of the region.
