In Trabzon, northeastern Türkiye, the birthplace of Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman ...

The Lion House. By Christopher de Bellaigue. Vintage; 304 pages; £20. To be published in America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in November; $28 NOT FOR the first or last time in history, the master of ...

Learn how Suleiman the Magnificent transformed the Ottoman Empire into a dominant world superpower, expanding its territory and influence across three continents. This video explores his military ...

SULTAN Suleiman the Magnificent, who earned his moniker for taking the Ottoman empire to the apogee of its glory in the mid-16th century, is widely regarded as sacred in Turkey. No matter that he had ...

LONDON — Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Turkish Sultan, is back in the headlines 500 years after his death. Turkey‘s first TV costume drama of the period, “Magnificent Century” (Muhtesem yuzyil ...

40 x 32.5 cm. (15.7 x 12.8 in.) The present painting relates to the portrait of Suleiman the Magnificent, painted by Cristofano dell’Altissimo for the celebrated ‘Series of Illustrious men’ ...

On Suleiman's mammoth estate were 10 mosques, 14 steam baths and two hospitals. The head cook, with 50 sous-chefs, 30 confectioners and 100 tasters, worked magic with dates, plums and prunes from ...

FOUR PRINCES: HENRY VIII, FRANCIS I, CHARLES V, SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT AND THE OBSESSIONS THAT FORGED MODERN EUROPE By John Julius Norwich Grove Press, $26, 304 pages For more than 50 years British ...