The Ottoman Empire. Episode 8, Suleiman the Magnificent, 1520-1566.
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Kenneth W. Harl
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2017.
Suleiman the Magnificent presided over the zenith of the Ottoman Empire. You'll learn how, during his 46-year reign, he expanded civil bureaucracy, waged a naval war in the Mediterranean against Habsburg Spain, and also altered the imperial succession - sowing what some historians consider the seeds of the empire's downfall.