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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: 14th-century Ottoman sultans, 15th-century Ottoman sultans, 16th-century Ottoman sultans, 17th-century Ottoman sultans, 18th-century Ottoman sultans, 19th-century Ottoman sultans, 20th-century Ottoman sultans, Pretenders to the Ottoman throne, Suleiman the Magnificent, Mehmed II, Mehmed VI, Osman I, Selim II, Orhan I, Osman II, Murad II, Bayezid I, Ahmed III, Murad IV, Abdulaziz, Bayezid II, Murad III, Mustafa I, Mehmed III, Abdul Hamid I, Mustafa II, List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, Abdul Hamid II, Mahmud II, Abdulmecid I, Selim III, Ertu rul Osman, Abdulmecid II, Mehmed IV, Cem, Murad V, Ibrahim I, Mustafa IV, Bayezid Osman, Osman III, Mustafa III, Abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate, Suleiman II, Mehmed Orhan, Ali Vasib, Ahmed Nihad, Mehmed Abdulaziz, Osman Fuad, Dundar Aliosman, Sultanzade Huseyin Hayreddin Bey Efendi. Excerpt: Suleiman I (; Ottoman Turkish: , Sult n Suleim n-i evvel or, K n n Sult n Suleim n, Modern Turkish: I. Suleyman (Turkish pronunciation: ) or Kanuni Sultan Suleyman; 6 November 1494 - 5/6/7 September 1566) was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566. He is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the East, as the Lawgiver (Turkish: Arabic:, al Q n n ), for his complete reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system. Suleiman became a prominent monarch of 16th century Europe, presiding over the apex of the Ottoman Empire's military, political and economic power. Suleiman personally led Ottoman armies to conquer the Christian strongholds of Belgrade, Rhodes, and most of Hungary before his conquests were checked at the Siege of Vienna in 1529. He annexed most of the Middle East in his conflict with the Safavids and large swathes of North Africa as far west as Algeria. Under his rule, the Ottoman fleet dominated the seas ...