AUXILIARY REFERENCES

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Classical period of the Ottoman Empire c. 1300-1600
Circumscribing the life and times of Suleiman the Magnificent 1481-1598
Life Span of Suleiman the Magnificent 1494-1566
Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent 1520-1566

  • MOST REFERENCES, BIOGRAPHIES OF PARTICIPANTS, ACTORS, AND AGENTS IN THE VARIOUS CAMPAIGNS ARE CONTAINED ON LINKS IN THE BODY OF THIS WORK.  CRITICAL NAMES AND ITEMS HAVE LINKS ON THEM OR ARE THEMSELVES DISPLAYED, AS MAPS, FOR EXAMPLE.  THUS, TOPOGRAPHY IS CRITICAL TO SULEIMAN'S CAMPAIGNS, AS IS HYDROLOGY, AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IS UNDERSCORED IN THE PRESENCE OF NUMEROUS MAPS.
  • AUXILIARY REFERENCES NOT OTHERWISE PRESENT ON THIS SITE.
    • Brice, W. E.  Historical Atlas of Islam
    • CIA Factbook
    • Clot, Andre.  Suleiman the Magnificent.  The Man, His Life, His Epoch.  Translated by Matthew J. Reisz.  SAQI Books, London.  2005.
    • ElOnline:  http://www.lib.umich.edu/area/Near.East/umall/ElOnline.html
    • Finkel, Caroline.  Administration of warfare: the Ottoman military campaigns in Hungary, 1593-1606.
    • Hickock, Rudy.  Military History in the Balkans, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Michigan.
    • Hütteroth, Wolfdieter.  Nejat Göyünc: Land an der Grenze.
    • Imber, Colin. The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650, The Structure of Power.  SAQI Books, London, 2005.
    • Inalcik, Halil, The Ottoman Empire, The Classical Age, 1300-1600.  Translated by Norman Itzkowitz and Colin Imber, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1973.
    • Lach, Donald F.  Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I:  The Century of Discovery, Book One.  Chicago:  The University of Chicago Press, 1965.
    • McNeill, William H.  The Rise of the West:  A History of the Human Community.  Chicago:  The University of Chicago Press, 1963.
    • Murphey, Rhoads.  Ottoman Warfare.
    • Pitcher, D. E. A Historical Atlas of the Ottoman Empire


From left to right three authors in the set above:  Halil Inalcik, William H. McNeill, Donald F. Lach, together in Cappadocia circa 1970. 
Photograph by Alma Lach.


The author, a neophyte in Ottoman studies, wishes to thank Ann E. Larimore, Robert Haug, and Gottfried Hagen for their kind help in providing a number of these references.