He married with Mahpeyker and had five children from her: Murad IV, Ibrahim I, Ayşe Sultan, Shahzade Suleiman and Shahzade Kasim.

Ahmed II was born at Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ibrahim I ( 1640 – 48 ) by Valide Sultan Khadija Muazzez, and succeeded his brother Suleiman II ( 1687 – 91 ) in 1691.

The culmination of Islamic dominance in the region occurred in 1557 when an Ottoman invasion during the time of Suleiman I and under Özdemir Pasha ( who had declared the province of Habesh in 1555 ) took the port city of Massawa and the adjacent city of Arqiqo, even taking Debarwa, then capital of the local ruler Bahr negus Yeshaq ( ruler of Midri Bahri ).

The conquests of Nice ( 1543 ) and Corsica ( 1553 ) occurred on behalf of France as a joint venture between the forces of the French king Francis I and the Ottoman sultan Suleiman I, and were commanded by the Ottoman admirals Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha and Turgut Reis.

In August 1523 he was forced into an alliance with the Empire, England, and Venice against France ; meanwhile, in 1522 the Sultan Suleiman I ( 1520 – 66 ) had conquered Rhodes.

Upon the death of his father, Selim I ( 1465 – 1520 ), Suleiman entered Constantinople and acceded to the throne as the tenth Ottoman Sultan.

Upon encountering the lifeless body of King Louis, Suleiman is said to have lamented: " I came indeed in arms against him ; but it was not my wish that he should be thus cut off while he scarcely tasted the sweets of life and royalty.

In 1535 Charles V won an important victory against the Ottomans at Tunis, which together with the war against Venice the following year, led Suleiman to accept proposals from Francis I of France to form an alliance against Charles.

Francis I of France | Francis I ( left ) and Suleiman the Magnificent ( right ) initiated a Franco-Ottoman alliance from the 1530s.

Indeed, such was the perceived threat of the Ottoman Empire under the reign of Suleiman that ambassador Busbecq warned of Europe's imminent conquest: " On Turks ' side are the resources of a mighty empire, strength unimpaired, habituation to victory, endurance of toil, unity, discipline, frugality and watchfulness ... Can we doubt what the result will be ?... When the Turks have settled with Persia, they will fly at our throats supported by the might of the whole East ; how unprepared we are I dare not say.

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* 1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.

This time King Henry VIII of England is allied to the Emperor, while James V of Scotland and Sultan Suleiman I are allied to the French.

September 22: Suleiman I.

He is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the East, as " The Lawgiver " (;, al ‐ Qānūnī ), for his complete reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system.

Suleiman ( Solomon ) Alexandrovich Yudakov (; ) ( – 1990 ) was a Soviet Bukharian composer of Jewish descent.

Koca Mi ' mâr Sinân Âğâ ( Ottoman Turkish: ; Modern Turkish: Mimar Sinan, ) ( c. 1489 / 1490 – July 17, 1588 was the chief Ottoman architect ( Turkish: " Mimar ") and civil engineer for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II, and Murad III.

His books in English include two collections of his poems (" Shadows of Love ", published in Canada, and " A Last Lullaby ", published in the United States ), Contemporary Turkish Literature, Modern Turkish Drama, Living Poets of Turkey, three books of the 13th century Anatolian mystic folk poet Yunus Emre, Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes ( with Metin And ), Suleiman the Magnificent-Poet, Turkish Legends and Folk poems, Tales of Nasreddin Hodja, and others.

Suleiman himself was an accomplished poet, writing in Persian and Turkish under the nom de plume Muhibbi ( Lover ).

Suleiman also conferred upon Ibrahim Pasha the honor of beylerbey of Rumelia, granting Ibrahim authority over all Turkish territories in Europe, as well as command of troops residing within them in times of war.

* September 28 – Battle of Preveza: The Turkish fleet of Suleiman the Magnificent under the command of Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha defeats the Holy League of Emperor Charles V under the command of Andrea Doria.

* May 10 – The Turkish army under Suleiman I leaves Constantinople to invade Hungary once again.

* September 23 – Vienna is besieged by the Turkish forces of Suleiman.

* August 29 – Battle of Mohács: The Turkish army of Sultan Suleiman I defeats the Hungarian army of King Louis II, who is killed in the retreat.

Suleiman II ( April 15, 1642 – June 22 / 23 1691 ) ( Ottoman Turkish: سليمان ثانى Süleymān-i < u > s </ u > ānī ) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1687 to 1691.

The practice of the Sultan avoiding the Divan had been introduced as long ago as the reign of Suleiman I, and was considered as one of the causes of the decline of the Empire by a Turkish historian nearly two centuries before Mahmud II's time.

He and the Rumeli contingent showed great successes in this campaign of Sultan Suleiman ( called the Nakhchevan Campaign by the Turkish historians ).

In 1536, when Francis I sought a Franco-Ottoman alliance with the Ottoman Turks, he sent Postel as the official interpreter of the French embassy of Jean de La Forêt to the Turkish sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in Constantinople.

* Suleiman Pasha ( Turkish officer ), Turkish chief commander

Learning of the Zrinski's success in an attack upon a Turkish encampment at Siklós, Suleiman decided to postpone his attack on Eger () and instead attack Zrinski's fortress at Szigetvár to eliminate him as a threat.

The Turkish sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, was so enraged that he had the two put to death.

Suleiman ibn Qutulmish (, Sulayman bin Kutalmish ) founded an independent Seljuq Turkish state in Anatolia and ruled as Seljuq Sultan of Rûm from 1077 until his death in 1086.

In medieval times however, this was not solely a Jewish symbol, but also an Islamic one known as the Seal of Solomon ( Suleiman ) and was extremely popular amongst the Turkish beyliks of Anatolia.

In 1543, Francis I, king of France, announced his unprecedented alliance with the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, by occupying the Spanish-controlled city of Nice in cooperation with Turkish forces.

By the northern end of the wall, on the bank of the Nagy-Duna, an interesting memorial is put, a stone table with Ottoman Turkish writings commemorates Sultan Suleiman ’ s victorious siege of 1543.

The only Turkish codex made in Hungary was copied in Szolnok ; it describes the campaigns of Suleiman in Hungary.

The practice of the Sultan avoiding the Divan had been introduced as long ago as the reign of Suleiman I, and was considered as one of the causes of the decline of the Empire by a Turkish historian nearly two centuries before Mahmud II's time.

He then made a series of successful reconnaissances of the Tundzha valley, cut the railway in two places, occupied Stara Zagora ( Turkish, Eski Zaara ) and Nova Zagora ( Eni Zaara ), checked the advance of Suleiman Pasha's army and returned again over the Balkans.