The sultan, considered by historians as the greatest Ottoman ruler, died in 1566 as his army laid siege to a castle defended by Hungarian forces at Szigetvar, 190km south of Budapest, close to ...

Nick Thorpe goes to southern Hungary to join researchers who are searching the soil - and the archives - for the heart of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

The night before his troops conquered the castle, Suleiman, who had ruled the empire for 46 years, died in his tent from old age, just shy of his 72nd birthday. His body was eventually taken back ...

Suleiman’s last haven. Suleiman succumbed to natural causes two months before his 72nd birthday, and only hours before his vast army finally overcame the Habsburg defenders of Szigetvar castle ...

"Sultan Suleiman knew Jerusalem received large numbers of religious pilgrims. So he restored the pools and opened two water aqueducts that stretched for more than 28km to the city," Taha told AA.