Suleiman I

American  

[soo-luh-mahn, -ley-, soo-ley-mahn] / ˈsu ləˌmɑn, -leɪ-, ˌsu leɪˈmɑn /

noun

1. the Magnificent, 1495?–1566, sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1520–66.

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Suleiman I British  

/ -leɪ-, ˌsuːlɪˈmɑːn /

noun

1. called the Magnificent. ?1495–1566, sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1520–66), whose reign was noted for its military power and cultural achievements

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Example Sentences

The Ottoman Empire is generally considered to have reached its pinnacle by the rise of Sultan Suleiman I in 1520.

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The empire reached its greatest heights under Suleiman I, known in the West as “the Magnificent” and among Ottomans as “the lawgiver” for his creation of a legal code that applied throughout the realm.

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Sultans such as Suleiman I encouraged people of all ethnicities to settle there, and under the millet system, each religious community had its own leader, regulated its own affairs, and educated its own children.

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Sultan Suleiman I decided to appoint a woman as his successor in order to confound and confuse his rivals, the Habsburg and the Safavids.

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One of the best, certainly the best in Turkish poetry, is the elegy by Baqui on the great Sultan Suleiman I, translated by E. J. W. Gibb in Ottoman Poetry.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert