Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World

by . Metin Kunt

Book Overview

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, Hungary, the Red Sea coast of Arabia, and even besieging Vienna. Patron and legislator as well as conqueror, he stamped his name on an age. These specially-commissioned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582038278
• ISBN13: 9780582038271
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"