Suleiman the Magnificent Quotes


The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, But in this world a spell of health is the best state. What men call sovereignty is a worldly strife and constant war. Worship of God is the highest throne, the happiest of all estates.


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Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494-1566, Ottoman Turkish Sultan Poem

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Suleiman the Magnificent
Suleiman the Magnificent
  • Born: November 6, 1494
  • Died: September 6, 1566
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Suleiman I, commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Suleiman the Lawgiver (Ottoman Turkish: قانونى سلطان سليمان‎, romanized: Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān) in his realm, was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566.:541–45 Under his administration, the Ottoman caliphate ruled over at least 25 million people.