Suleiman the Magnificent

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Suleiman the Magnificent
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
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Suleiman I attributed to Titian c.1530
Reign 15201566 (46 years)
Coronation 1520
Full name Sultan Suleiman Khan
Titles Sultan of Sultans,
The Shadow of God on Earth (Caliph),
Caesar of all the lands of Rome
Born November 6, 1494(1494-11-06)
Birthplace Trabzon
Died September 7, 1566 (aged 71)
Place of death Szigetvar, Hungary
Buried Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul
Predecessor Selim I
Successor Selim II
Consort Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana)
Wives
Gülbahar Sultan
Royal House House of Osman
Father Selim I
Mother Hafsa Hatun

Suleiman I (سليمان Sulaymān, Süleyman; almost always Kanuni Sultan Süleyman in Turkish) (November 6, 1494September 5/6, 1566), was the tenth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He reigned from 1520 to 1566. That was longer than any other Ottoman sultan. He is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent[1] and in the Islamic world, as the Lawgiver (in Turkish Kanuni; Arabic: القانونى, al‐Qānūnī), because he reconstructed the Ottoman legal system.

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  1. Merriman.

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  • Bridge, Anthony (1983). Suleiman the Magnificent, Scourge of Heaven. New York: F. Watts. OCLC 9853956.
  • Downey, Fairfax Davis. The Grand Turke, Suleyman the Magnificent, sultan of the Ottomans. New York: Minton, Balch & Company. OCLC 25776191.
  • Hooker, Richard. "The Ottomans: Suleyman". http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/OTTOMAN/SULEYMAN.HTM. Retrieved 2007-09-02.
  • Lybyer, Albert Howe (1913). The government of the Ottoman empire in the time of Suleiman the Magnificent. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. OCLC 1562148.

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