Despite religious differences, he fell in love with a Slavic slave girl, to whom he wrote poetry signed "A Lover" and whom he later married. During his 46 year reign, he allied himself with Francis I in an effort to keep Europe divided while conqueri
Despite religious differences, he fell in love with a Slavic slave girl, to whom he wrote poetry signed "A Lover" and whom he later married. During his 46 year reign, he allied himself with Francis I in an effort to keep Europe divided while conquering Budapest and besieging Vienna. It was his goal to recreate the Garden of Eden at his capitol of Topkapi, and in his own day he was called the second Solomon. FTP, name this longest-reigning Ottoman emperor, known as the Lawgiver.
Despite religious differences, he fell in love with a Slavic slave girl, to whom he wrote poetry signed "A Lover" and whom he later married.