. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . , and the glorious fruitsof so many years of toil and care, on theevent of a single day; and neither was sorrythat his adversarys lukewarmness for battle furnisheil a creditable excusefor his own. The warlike energies of the Ottomans were now for sometime chiefly em{)loyed in the East, where the unremitted enmity of Persiato Turkey, and the consequent wars between these two great Mohammedanpowers, were a cause of relief to
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . , and the glorious fruitsof so many years of toil and care, on theevent of a single day; and neither was sorrythat his adversarys lukewarmness for battle furnisheil a creditable excusefor his own. The warlike energies of the Ottomans were now for sometime chiefly em{)loyed in the East, where the unremitted enmity of Persiato Turkey, and the consequent wars between these two great Mohammedanpowers, were a cause of relief to Christendom, which her diplomatists of thatage freely acknowledged. The modern Turk, who .seeks consolation in remembering the glories ofthe great Suleiman, must dwell with peculiar satisfaction on the tokens ofrespectful fear which his nation then received from the most powerful as well:is from the weaker states of Christendom. And the year 1547 is made apeculiarly proud one in the annals of the house of Osman by the humbleconcession which its rival, the Austrian house of Habsburg, was then com-pelled to make to its superior strength and fortune. The war in Hungary. A Janissary in the Dress ofCeremony MEEIDIAN AND BEGINNIXG OF DECLINE 351 [1539-l&] had been renewed in consequence of the death of John Zapolya, in 1539;upon which event Ferdinand claimed the whole of Hungary, while the widowof Zapolya implored the assistance of the sultan in behalf of her infant poured his armies mto that country, and in 1541 and the followingyears he again commanded in person on the banks of the Danube. He pro-fessed the intention of placing the young prince Zapolya on the throne ofHungary and Transylvania when he should have attained the age of man-hood; but Buda and the other chief cities were garrisoned by hmi with Turk-ish troops, the country was allotted into sandjaks, over which Turkish gov-ernors were appointed, and the Ottoman provincial system was generallyestablishe
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