Turkey: Suleiman the Magnificent (6 November 1494 - 6 September 1566) at the head of the Ottoman army in Nakhichevan, summer 1554. Miniature painting by Matrakçı Nasuh (1480-1564) with Persian poetry by Fethullah Çelebi Arifi, 1561. Sultan Suleyman I, also known as 'Suleyman the Magnificent' and 'Suleyman the Lawmaker', was the 10th and longest reigning sultan of the Ottoman empire. He personally led his armies to conquer Transylvania, the Caspian, much of the Middle East and the Maghreb. He introduced sweeping reforms in Turkish legislation, education, taxation and criminal law,

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