The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World
by
I M Kunt, Christine Woodhead
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (r.1520-1566) dominated the eastern Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds - and the imagination of his contemporaries - very much as his fellow sovereigns Charles V, Francis I and Henry VIII in the west. He greatly expanded the Ottoman empire, capturing Rhodes, Belgrade,...