Talk:Suleiman the Magnificent
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Shouldn't the term be Sultan, not Emperor? -- corvus13
Was he named after Solomon? -- Chris Q
Sultan and Emperor were used interchangeably by the Ottoman rulers after 1453. Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople, actually went so far as to assume the title of "Caesar" because he had conquered the last remnant of the Roman Empire. As the Ottomans expanded into Christian lands, it was probably expedient for the sultans to assume the more familiar title of Emperor for their subjects in those territories, anyway. -- jsc1973
- Huh? Adam Bishop 19:38, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Sorry -- you are right, this should have been the Ormus article. But check the www.nationmaster.com encyclopedia; I think this article too was plagiarized.
This is the text from that encyclopedia -- identical to this article: Suleyman I, also called Süleyman I and nicknamed the Lawmaker or the Magnificent, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1494 to 1566 and successor to Selim I. The Ottoman Empire reached its zenith and became a world power during his reign. Although the empire continued to expand one century after his death, this period was followed by a very long decline.
He captured Belgrade in 1521 and Rhodes in 1522. The Ottoman victory at the Battle of Mohacs opened the doors of Hungary and Vienna, the latter of which had been besieged unsuccessfully in 1529. In the following two decades, huge territories of North Africa west to Morocco and all Middle East north to Persia were annexed. This quick expansion was associated with naval dominance for a short period in the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf.
He earned his nickname the Lawmaker from his complete reconstruction of the Ottoman law system. The laws that he gathered covered almost every aspect of life at the time.
When Süleyman died in 1566, major Muslim cities (Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Baghdad), many Balkan provinces up to today’s Austria, and most of North Africa were under the control of the empire.
That encyclopedia is copywrited, but often uses material from Wikipedia. But that encyclopedia gives no indication that this article was taken from wikipedia, which makes me wonder whether it was cut and posted from that source. Slrubenstein
- And yes, ChrisQ, Suleyman was named after Solomon (who is considered a Prophet in Islam). His Arab subjects called him 'Sulayman', as do many other Muslim people outside the Ottoman Empire...
