Among the people there is no possession so esteemed as the state / yet there is no state in this world like one breath of good health.
Halk içinde muteber bir nesne yok devlet gibi / Olmaya devlet cihanda bir nefes sıhhat gibi.
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Suleiman the Magnificent
Tenth Ottoman sultan (1494-1566), known in the West as the Magnificent and to his own subjects as Kanuni, the Lawgiver. His 46-year reign, the longest of any Ottoman sultan, took the empire to its zenith. He conquered Belgrade (1521), Rhodes (1522), broke the Kingdom of Hungary at Mohács (1526), and secured Mediterranean naval supremacy at Preveza (1538). With his Grand Mufti Ebussuud he codified the kanun, and as patron of Mimar Sinan he presided over the empire's architectural and literary golden age. His later years were shadowed by the failed siege of Vienna (1529), the execution of his eldest son Mustafa (1553), and the inauguration of the Sultanate of Women. He died on campaign at Szigetvár in 1566 at the age of 71.
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Suleiman the Magnificent's Other Quotes
I am God's slave and sultan of this world. By the grace of God I am head of Muhammad's community.
I came indeed in arms against him; but it was not my wish that he should be thus cut off before he scarcely tasted the sweets of life and royalty.
Everyone aims at the same meaning, but many are the versions of the story.
Peerless among princes, my Sultan Mehmed.
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