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241 "... Suleiman the Magnificent..."
"Suleiman I (Ottoman Turkish: Sulaymān, Turkish: Süleyman; almost always
Kanuni Sultan Süleyman in Turkish) (November 6, 1494 – September 5/6, 1566), was the
tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566. He
is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the East, as the Lawgiver (in
Turkish Kanuni; Arabic: , alQānūnī), for his complete reconstruction of the
Ottoman legal system. Suleiman became the pre-eminent monarch of 16th century Europe,
presiding over the apex of the Ottoman Empire's military, political and economic power.
Suleiman personally led Ottoman armies to conquer the Christian strongholds of Belgrade,
Rhodes, and most of Hungary before his conquests were checked at the Siege of Vienna in
1529. He annexed most of the Middle East in his conflict with the Persians and large
swathes of North Africa as far west as Algeria. Under his rule, the Ottoman fleet dominated
the seas from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean.
At the helm of an expanding empire, Suleiman personally instituted legislative changes
relating to society, education, taxation, and criminal law. His canonical law (or the Kanuns)
fixed the form of the empire for centuries after his death. Not only was Suleiman a
distinguished poet and goldsmith in his own right; he also became a great patron of culture,
overseeing the golden age of the Ottoman Empire's artistic, literary and architectural
development.
In a break with Ottoman tradition, Suleiman married a harem girl who became Hürrem
Sultan, whose intrigues in the court and power over the Sultan have become as famous as
Suleiman himself."
-- Reference: Wikipedia.org
242 "... His assistant was a harem girl who rose up from slavery to become his wife..."
" According to late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century sources such as the
Polish poet Samuel Twardowski, she was born in the town which was then part of the
Kingdom of Poland. She was captured by Crimean Tatars during one of their frequent raids
into this region and taken as a slave, probably first to the Crimean city of Kaffa, a major
centre of the slave trade, then to Istanbul, and was selected for Süleyman's harem.
Suleiman was infatuated with Hurrem Sultan, a harem girl of Ruthenian origin. In the West
foreign diplomats, taking notice of the palace gossip about her, called her "Russelazie" or
"Roxolana", referring to her Slavic origins. The daughter of an Orthodox Ukrainian priest,
she was captured and rose through the ranks of the Harem to become Suleiman's favorite.
Breaking with two centuries of Ottoman tradition, a former concubine had thus
become the legal wife of the Sultan, much to the astonishment of observers in the palace
and the city. He also allowed Hurrem Sultan to remain with him at court for the rest of
her life, breaking another tradition—that when imperial heirs came of age, they would be
sent along with the imperial concubine who bore them to govern remote provinces of the
Empire, never to return unless their progeny succeeded to the throne.
Under his pen name, Muhibbi, Suleiman composed this poem for Roxolana:
"Throne of my lonely niche, my wealth, my love, my moonlight.
My most sincere friend, my confidant, my very existence, my Sultan, my one and only love.
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