the 16th century · 4 August 1647 The screen of castles, and the last DóczyClona hradov a posledný Dóczi

After 1526 the Ottomans took the middle of the kingdom, and the mining towns upstream — whose silver Vienna genuinely could not afford to lose — paid for a screen of strengthened castles across the southern approaches. Revište was one of them, watching the Hron corridor from below; its Gothic core was given Renaissance work to take cannon. The frontier here was not a line on a map but a zone in which anything could happen in any given summer, and raiding parties came a long way north. On 4 August 1647 Ottoman troops took Žarnovica, and Žigmund Dóczy, the last lord of his line, was captured and beheaded. The family died out with him and Revište reverted to the crown — one summer's raid ending two hundred years of ownership.Po roku 1526 obsadili Osmani stred kráľovstva a banské mestá proti prúdu — o ich striebro si Viedeň naozaj nemohla dovoliť prísť — zaplatili clonu zosilnených hradov na južných prístupoch. Revište bolo jedným z nich a strážilo pohronský koridor zdola; gotické jadro dostalo renesančné úpravy, ktoré počítali s delami. Hranica tu nebola čiarou na mape, ale pásmom, kde sa každé leto mohlo stať čokoľvek, a nájazdné oddiely sa dostávali ďaleko na sever. 4. augusta 1647 dobyli Osmani Žarnovicu a Žigmunda Dócziho, posledného pána svojho rodu, zajali a sťali. Rodom sa to skončilo a Revište pripadlo späť korune — jeden letný nájazd ukončil dvesto rokov vlastníctva.