 This also created conditions for the Serb uprising in Banat in 1594.Smaller groups of Ottoman Christian "martolosi" and some "sipahi" went rogue when Christian armies conquered Filek and Nógrád during the winter of 1593–94.They gathered in the frontier towards Transylvania (ruled by Ottoman vassal Sigismund Báthory), where numerous "hajduk" bands were active before the war, and received help from Đorđe Palotić, the Ban of Lugos, and Ferenc Geszti, one of the main Transylvanian commanders.