Suleiman I “the Magnificent” (name given by the Europeans) was born April 27, 1495 in Trebizond Turkey, died September 5, 1566 in Szigetvar Hungary at the age of 72 while conducting the siege of Szigetvar in Hungary. He is buried in Süleymaniye Mosque Istanbul. He was a straight(sexual orientation) Muslim from the middle east. In 1520 at the age of 25 he became royalty “sultan” or monarch of the Ottoman Empire a “lawgiver” in Islam, he preceded his father Selim I and became the tenth and longest reigning sultan in the Ottoman empire for 47 years. He was not only born during the most glorious period in Islamic history he was born while the renaissance was happening in Europe. His father handed down a well organized country with many willing warriors and allot of money. Suleiman partnered up with Francis I the king of France, they fought against Charles V who was the holy roman emperor at the time, he also brought in a new improved system for feudal tenures (specified jobs) as well as improving the military thus creating the biggest Ottoman fleet ever. Dominating the Red Sea, Mediterranean sea, and Persian Gulf, these strong armies conquered the Christian strongholds of Belgrade, Rhodes, and Hungary. He annexed (took) most of the middle east and large chunks of north America (all the way to Algeria) he took this land from the safavids(Iranian dynasty). Suleiman improved not only the army but the economy, education, and criminal law, taxes started to be collected, so basically Suleiman ruled the golden age of the Ottoman empire creating artistic, literary, and architectural development. Suleiman spoke six different languages, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Bosnian, Chagatai(dialect of Turkish language), and Persian. Suleiman was a sultan by day and a poet (under the pseudonym (pen name) of Muhibbr) and goldsmith by night; he broke tradition and married a harem girl named Aleksandra Lisowska also known as Roxelana bringing a raise in harem influence (polygamy), Suleiman had four sons and one daughter his four sons names were Mustafa, Selim II, Bayezid, Cihangir and his daughter was Mihrumâh - Mihrimar. He is so important because he was not only a poligamist but he was the biggest influence on islamic world in the ways he ruled with his laws and ideas. 
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