I've improved my post on Komárom's history with more details of its siege in 1594:
Komárom and Komárno are basically one city. They are at the confluence of the Danube and the Vág rivers, and one of the cities is located in the Upper lands (Horná Zem, Felvidék) in Slovakia, and is called Komarno.
The other part is still in Hungary and it is known as Komárom. They were divided this way in 1918. In the age of Ottoman wars, whoever owned Komárom, could control three large regions of Hungary, namely the Dunántúl (Trans-Danubian Region) the Csallóköz, and the Mátyusföld.
Komárom Castle was a formidable fortress, blocking the Danube before Vienna and Pozsony (Bratislava, Pressburg), making all river passage impossible and it was a very good crossing place.
The city has a system of forts, bastions, and fortifications on both banks of the river Danube. Now, there is the “New Castle” and the “Old Castle”.
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Hardly had the Italian engineers finished the new fort system in the summer of 1594 when it was put to the test in the autumn. Grand Vizier Sinan victoriously took the castles of Tata and Győr, then attacked Komárom with a huge army of 50,000 men.
Sinan wanted to capture the last remaining strong fort of the area in preparation for taking Vienna in the following year. At first, he sent his son, Szinánpasazáde Mehmed to Komárom, then followed him in person.
As Count Pálffy was fighting against the Pasha’s huge army near Győr, the defenders were led by Captain Erasmus Praun and by Captain of the sloopers, Sztarcsics Farkas. They had only 1,000 men before the siege commenced but the Austrians had taken many of the sloopers to strengthen the Christian army at Győr.
We do not know whether they could get back to Komárom before 4 October or not. In Komárom, the defenders had only 300 German infantrymen and a couple of hundred Hungarian Hussars and 600 sloopers left. On top of this, many sloopers chose to flee the castle before the siege, though.
Captain Praun was sending lots of letters to the Military Council, demanding more men. We know that the Council sent Hans Jäger Hauptmann with 200 soldiers on 30 September to Komárom but they were not in a hurry to arrive: all we know is that they were not in Komárom on 8 October.
Praun asked for miners, too because they were supposed to prevent the enemy’s mines. Unfortunately, the miners he got did not make a good job. Also, there was not enough food and gunpowder.
Praun did not have enough artillery because he had had to send cannons to Győr castle beforehand. There were cannons in the poorly defended market town of Komárom but they could not tow them into the castle, so they had to sink some of them into the river. Later, they lost three of their best cannons during the siege.
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You can read the details of the siege in my article about Komárom's history, based on Szibler Gábor and Bagi Zoltán's research:
https://www.hungarianottomanwars.com/kingdom-of-hungary/komarom/
