The Ottoman Empire
Season 1
Ep 8. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1520-1566
- TV-PG
- May 26, 2017
- 32 min
Suleiman the Magnificent presided over the zenith of the Ottoman Empire. You'll learn how, during his 46-year reign, he expanded civil bureaucracy, waged a naval war in the Mediterranean against Habsburg Spain, and also altered the imperial succession - sowing what some historians consider the seeds of the empire's downfall.