Titel

Titel stands on the Tisza near its junction with the Danube, at the edge of a raised plateau above the river plain. In the Middle Ages an Augustinian monastery founded by King Ladislaus and his brother Lampert made it a religious centre. Under Ottoman rule the town had both Orthodox and Catholic churches. In 1763 Titel became the headquarters of the Šajkaš battalion of the Habsburg Military Frontier. Its boatmen used small armed vessels to guard the waterways along the Ottoman border.