Corfu

WAR WITH VENICE; SIEGE OF CORFU, 1537
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Classical period of the Ottoman Empire c. 1300-1600
Circumscribing the life and times of Suleyman the Magnificent 1481-1598
Life Span of Suleyman the Magnificent 1494-1566
Reign of Suleyman the Magnificent 1520-1566

Military Campaigns of Suleyman:
Timeline of Selected Events

1521--Conquest of Belgrade
1522--Fall of Rhodes
1523
1524
1525
1526--Battle of Mohacs
1527
1528
1529--Siege of Vienna
1530
1531
1532--Siege of Guns
1533--Two Iraqs Campaign
1534--Conquest of Baghdad; Battles of Tunis
1535--Battles of Tunis
1536
1537--War with Venice; Siege of Corfu
1538--Naval Battle of Preveza
1539
1540--Peace with Venice
1541
1542
1543--Siege of Nice
1544
1545
1546
1547
1548--Conquest of Van
1549
1550
1551
1552
1553
1554--Campaign in Iran
1555
1556--Hungarian Campaign
1557--Hungarian Campaign
1558--Hungarian Campaign
1559--Hungarian Campaign
1560
1561
1562
1563
1564
1565--Siege of Malta
1566--Siege of Szeged

Corfu is a strategic location in the Mediterranean. Look at its relation to Venice, and then think about Venice as a southern entry to Europe, through the valley of the Po River. Use the maps above to imagine strategy in this region. Is what you imagine the way it happened? The links provided here offers a starting point to this complex topic.
Links to sites describing the action, references, and bibliographic material:

TheOttomans.org, look at all the links of this interesting site: http://www.theottomans.org/english/chronology/index.asp
The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History

General site: http://www.ata.boun.edu.tr
Bibliography: from the section for students, click here for link

References on Suleyman:

Hooker, Richard. "The Ottomans Suleyman," http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/OTTOMAN/SULEYMAN.HTM
From a Turkish site of Burak Sansal: http://www.allaboutturkey.com/suleyman.htm
Inalcik, Halil. "Sultan Suleyman: The Man and the Statesman," in Gilles Veinstein (ed.) , Soliman le magnifique et son temps, Paris, 1992, pp. 89-103.

Goings on elsewhere during this year of 1537...links to sites with timelines:

Related links:

Goffman, Daniel. The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press. Link to Frontmatter.

The Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, 1453-1950, Thomas Kuhn course syllabus and notes, Simon Fraser University http://www.lib.sfu.ca/researchhelp/subjectguides/hist/classes/hist043350.htm
GLOBALHISTORIE: NOEN (FORHOLDSVIS NYE) TITLER, MED SÆRLIG VEKT PÅ PERIODEN 1400-1900; http://rorg.no/rorg/Tema/historie/litt.htm
Agoston, Gabor. Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the
Ottoman Empire. Cambridge University Press. http://assets.cambridge.org/052184/3138/excerpt/0521843138_excerpt.pdf
Ghazzal, Zouhair, Modern Middle East, History 313, Loyola University Chicago, http://www.luc.edu/depts/history/ghazzal/hist313.htm
History On-Line, UK: http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/Theses/tpasia.html