Jan Zapolya was born in Slovakya, in 1487. He came from a noble Hungarian family. He made leadership of Racos Assembly decided not to select a prince, who was not pureblooded Hungarian as the King, in 1505. Jan Zapolya was the candidate of king among nobles. He was brought in the place of Transilvania Voyvoda, in 1511. In 1514, he bloodily repressed the peasants’ rebellion against nobles. The Hungary War of Sultan Suleyman The Lawgiver resulted in Mohaç Triumph, in 1526. Jan Zapolya was selected as Hungarian King by a few Hungarian nobles in 1526. But the opposing nobles selected Archduke of Austria, Ferdinand as the king. This resulted in an internal war for two years. Jan Zapolya was beaten by Ferdinand and he asked for help to Ottoman. The position of Zapolya got stronger by the entrance of Sultan Suleyman The Lawgiver to Hungary again. Hungary Land was shared between Jan Zapolya and Ferdinand in 1533. Jan Zapolya violated the agreement done in 1538, left his son Sigismund to his place and died in Transilvania, in 1540.

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