5-)B�OGRAPHY OF KANUN� SULTAN SULEYMAN
I have chosen to do my biography on Kanuni Sultan S�leyman.I like his lifestyle very much.He was a brave person, because he arranged 80 campaigns to different countries and also he managed these campaigns himself.He battled his enemies with his army.�n addition I have always been interested in history.Especially I like the Ottoman Empire and Kanuni was the most famous ruler of the Ottoman Empire. I Knew his name and all Turkish people knew his name, but we don�t know special things and information from his life. Therefore I decided to research Kanuni S. S. for this project.
He was born on 27th April 1495. His father�s name was Yavuz Sultan Selim. Selim was the other famous ruler of Ottoman Empire who conquered Egypt and Arabia. His mother�s name was Hafsa Sultan. Kanuni was the tenth ruler of the Ottoman Empire. Also he was the seventy fifth caliph of the Muslims. Now the Muslims hasn�t got a leader like caliphs. After a while, his father died and he took the management of Ottoman Empire in 30th September 1520 when he was twenty years old. After 1 year in 1521, he conquered Belgrad. In 1522 he conquered Rodos where was the center of Mediterranean Sea�s knights. In 1526 he prepared his army for the campaign to Hungary. His army had 100.000 warriors and 300 cannons. They started the war in Moha� Lowland and Hungary�s army was defeated in a very short time. This was called Moha� War which was the biggest ground�s war in history. On 20th September 1526 he entered the capital of Hungary which was Budin. In 1529 he wanted to conquer Vienna because Vienna had a stragetical place in Middle Europe. In this case he wanted to envelop Vienna, and he prepared to this mission.Then he went to this area with his huge army. Vienna was the last defence of Europe, but something went wrong in this mission. Because all European countries sent armies to Vienna and incredible flood became and all of the cannon sank deeply into the soil.He couldn�t do anything to these incident. If he had conquered Vienna, Ottoman Empire would have dominated all Europe after this war. In 1534 he conquered Bagdat and Basra. In Kerbela where was holy place for Muslims, he visited Hz. Ali�s and Hz. H�seyin�s mausoleum.After that he continued and took the control of Tebriz from Safevi Empire. Safevi Empire was the large empire which was settled in Iran. In 1537 he prepared a mission to �taly and, move ahead to Otranto.After this he took the control of the land. He made a large empire.
On 27th Septmber 1538 he destroyed the Crusade�s navy in Mediterrenian Sea. The world has never seen the victory like this. In Red Sea and Indian Ocean he wanted to obstruct Portugal�s trade, but he couldn�t cope with their navy because Ottoman navy was less strong than Portugal�s. In 1553 he conquered Estergon Castle. In 1556 he prepared a new mission to Zigetvar Castle. In this mission he died at the age of 72, but his army didn�t know this.They continued and took the control of this castle.
Turkish people called him ��Kanuni and Gazi��. European people called him ��Suleyman the Magnifecent��. When he took control of Empire, it had 6.557.000 km2 after his death, Empire had 14.893.000 km2 .Because of this, he was called magnifecent. He prepared Ottoman�s laws and gathered the laws into one center. Because of this he was called Kanuni.
In his revolotion science, architecture,social sciences grew fastly .In �stanbul S�leymaniye Mosque is constructed by Mimar Sinan. He was a warrior. In battlefield nobody wanted to fight or war with him since his appearance was magnifecent. He gave large empire and perfect management to other rulers.
I learned a lot of things while I was writing this
Biography.I learned that Kanuni was a perfect person.I think
in Turkish history he is as important as Atat�rk and Fatih
Sultan Mehmet.Furthermore I learned how to write and
organize a biography.
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