page_title: Territorial evolution of the Ottoman Empire
section_title: 1566
hierarchical_section_title: Territorial evolution of the Ottoman Empire / 1566
caption_attribution_description: English: A map depicting the Ottoman Empire and its dependencies in 1590.Português: Império Otomano em 1590
context_page_description: This is the territorial evolution of the Ottoman Empire during a timespan of seven centuries.
context_section_description: Suleiman I (Ottoman Turkish: سليمان‎ Süleymān, Turkish: Süleyman; almost always Kanuni Sultan Süleyman) (6 November 1494  – 5/6/7 September 1566), was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566. Suleiman became a prominent monarch of 16th century Europe. Suleiman personally led Ottoman armies to conquer the Christian strongholds of Belgrade, Rhodes, and most of Hungary. In 1541 he annexed central Hungary while Transylvania became an Ottoman vassal. However rest of the Kingdom of Hungary including western and northern (Upper) Hungary and Croatia still were Habsburgs possessions. Suleiman also conquered Iraq in his conflict with the Safavid dynasty. Under his rule, the Ottoman fleet dominated the seas from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
caption: Territorial extent of the Ottoman Empire in 1590.
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