The Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (in Hungarian: Keleti Magyar Királyság) is the modern name used to designate the realm of John Zápolya and his son John Sigismund Zápolya, counter-kings to the Habsburg Hungarian Kings. There were several attempts to reunite the two Hungarian kingdoms under Habsburg rule, but the Turks prevented this by taking the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom under their protection.
The exact territory of the polity was disputed because both kings (the Habsburgs and the Zápolyas) claimed the whole kingdom. Temporary territorial division occurred only at the secret negotiations of Treaty of Nagyvárad in 1538. The Eastern Hungarian Kingdom is the predecessor of Principality of Transylvania that was established in 1570 in accordance with Treaty of Speyer (ratified in 1571).
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