Until his death at age 71, Suleiman was the Ottoman Empire's longest-ruling sultan. The Turks greatly expanded their dominance in the Balkans, the Middle East and northern Africa during his 46 ...

The Hospice Khassaki Sultan was established in 1552 and named after the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent's wife, also known as Sultana Roxelana (1502-1558 AD), along with many other ...

Around 2,000 years later in the Ottoman Empire (based in modern day Turkey), there was another Queen, known as Roxelana, whose story has many parallels to Esther’s.