Ask in the town what wrecked the castle and someone will say the Turks. The record says otherwise. Nitra was fought over in the anti-Habsburg uprisings that ran for more than a century — Bocskai, Bethlen, and finally the kuruc war of Francis II Rákóczi from 1703 to 1711, when Rákóczi's commander Bercsényi took the castle — and the town below it burned down in 1708. Across Slovakia far more castles were wrecked in these civil wars, or deliberately demolished on Habsburg orders afterwards, than were ever destroyed by an Ottoman army.Spýtajte sa v meste, čo hrad zničilo, a niekto povie, že Turci. Pramene hovoria niečo iné. O Nitru sa bojovalo v protihabsburských povstaniach, ktoré trvali vyše storočia — Bocskai, Bethlen a napokon kurucká vojna Františka II. Rákócziho v rokoch 1703 až 1711, keď hrad obsadil Rákócziho veliteľ Bercséni — a mesto pod hradom roku 1708 vyhorelo. Na Slovensku zničili oveľa viac hradov práve tieto domáce vojny alebo cielené búranie, ktoré po nich nariadili Habsburgovci, než osmanské vojská.
