- Suleyman's final return to the Danube Basin
focuses once again in Hungary, on the Great Hungarian Plain. This
time, however, he is killed just prior to the end of battle. The
reign of Suleyman the Magnificent is over.
Use the maps above to imagine strategy mixed terrain, from rugged
regions to deserts incised by valleys. Is what you imagine the
way it
happened? The link provided here offers
a starting point to this complex topic.
- Links to sites describing
the action, references, and bibliographic material:
- Goings on elsewhere
during
this year of 1566...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
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