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Right-facing laureate head of Maximinus Thrax, first emperor of the period of barracks emperors.. Coinage from Maximinus Thrax to Aemilianus is understood as the set of coins issued by Rome during the reigns of more than a dozen emperors of the first part of the period called military anarchy, succeeding Severus Alexander (last of the Severan dynasty), from 235 to 253: Maximinus Thrax (235 ...
The growth of the Ottoman Empire. The map is showing Suleiman's conquests in comparison with his predecessors and successors. The imperial campaigns (Ottoman Turkish: سفر همايون, romanized: sefer-i humāyūn) [Note 1] were a series of campaigns led by Suleiman, who was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Suleiman I (Ottoman Turkish: سليمان اول Süleyman-ı Evvel; Modern Turkish: I. Süleyman, IPA:; 6 November 1494 – 6 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the Western world and as Suleiman the Lawgiver (قانونى سلطان سليمان Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān) in his own realm, was the Ottoman sultan between 1520 and his death in 1566.
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Suleiman waged three campaigns against the Safavids. In the first, the historically important city of Baghdad fell to Suleiman's forces in 1534. The second campaign, 1548–1549, resulted in temporary Ottoman gains in Tabriz and Azerbaijan, a lasting presence in Van Province, and some forts in Georgia. The third campaign (1554–55) was a ...
Suleiman's march to Vienna was also an attempt to assist his vassal, John Szapolyai who claimed the throne of Hungary. Suleiman sent his army of 120,000 strong north on the 10 May 1529. His campaign was marked by speedy success, on September 8 Buda surrendered to the Ottomans and John Szapolyai was installed as King of Hungary.
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The siege of Vienna, in 1529, was the first attempt by the Ottoman Empire to capture the city of Vienna in the Archduchy of Austria, part of the Holy Roman Empire. Suleiman the Magnificent, sultan of the Ottomans, attacked the city with over 100,000 men, while the defenders, led by Niklas Graf Salm, numbered no more than 21,000.