AUXILIARY REFERENCES
Back to Overview

Classical period of the Ottoman Empire c. 1300-1600
Circumscribing the life and times of Suleyman the Magnificent 1481-1598
Life Span of Suleyman the Magnificent 1494-1566
Reign of Suleyman the Magnificent 1520-1566


 Military Campaigns of Suleyman: 
Timeline of Selected Events
1521--Conquest of Belgrade
1522--Fall of Rhodes
1523
1524
1525
1526--Battle of Mohacs
1527
1528
1529--Siege of Vienna
1530
1531
1532--Siege of Guns
1533--Two Iraqs Campaign
1534--Conquest of Baghdad; Battles of Tunis
1535--Battles of Tunis
1536
1537--War with Venice; Siege of Corfu
1538--Naval Battle of Preveza
1539
1540--Peace with Venice
1541
1542
1543--Siege of Nice
1544
1545
1546
1547
1548--Conquest of Van
1549
1550
1551
1552
1553
1554--Campaign in Iran
1555
1556--Hungarian Campaign
1557--Hungarian Campaign
1558--Hungarian Campaign
1559--Hungarian Campaign
1560
1561
1562
1563
1564
1565--Siege of Malta
1566--Siege of Szeged





  • MOST REFERENCES, BIOGRAPHIES OF PARTICIPANTS, ACTORS, AND AGENTS IN THE VARIOUS CAMPAIGNS ARE CONTAINED ON LINKS IN THE BODY OF THIS WORK.  CRITICAL NAMES AND ITEMS HAVE LINKS ON THEM OR ARE THEMSELVES DISPLAYED, AS MAPS, FOR EXAMPLE.  THUS, TOPOGRAPHY IS CRITICAL TO SULEIMAN'S CAMPAIGNS, AS IS HYDROLOGY, AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IS UNDERSCORED IN THE PRESENCE OF NUMEROUS MAPS.
  • AUXILIARY REFERENCES NOT OTHERWISE PRESENT ON THIS SITE.
    • Brice, W. E.  Historical Atlas of Islam
    • CIA Factbook
    • Clot, Andre.  Suleiman the Magnificent.  The Man, His Life, His Epoch.  Translated by Matthew J. Reisz.  SAQI Books, London.  2005.
    • ElOnline:  http://www.lib.umich.edu/area/Near.East/umall/ElOnline.html
    • Finkel, Caroline.  Administration of warfare: the Ottoman military campaigns in Hungary, 1593-1606.
    • Hickock, Rudy.  Military History in the Balkans, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Michigan.
    • Hütteroth, Wolfdieter.  Nejat Göyünc: Land an der Grenze.
    • Imber, Colin. The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650, The Structure of Power.  SAQI Books, London, 2005.
    • Inalcik, Halil, The Ottoman Empire, The Classical Age, 1300-1600.  Translated by Norman Itzkowitz and Colin Imber, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1973.
    • Lach, Donald F.  Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I:  The Century of Discovery, Book One.  Chicago:  The University of Chicago Press, 1965.
    • McNeill, William H.  The Rise of the West:  A History of the Human Community.  Chicago:  The University of Chicago Press, 1963.
    • Murphey, Rhoads.  Ottoman Warfare.
    • Pitcher, D. E. A Historical Atlas of the Ottoman Empire


From left to right three authors in the set above:  Halil Inalcik, William H. McNeill, Donald F. Lach, together in Cappadocia circa 1970. 
Photograph by Alma Lach.
The author, a neophyte in Ottoman studies, wishes to thank Ann E. Larimore, Robert Haug, and Gottfried Hagen for their kind help in providing a number of these references.