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The government of the Ottoman Empire in the time of Suleiman the Magnificent

Note 399 — Chapter IV · THE RULING INSTITUTION: AS AN ARMY

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Suleiman in his letter to Ferdinand, November 27, 1562, says, “I, Lord of the Orient from the land of Tsin to the extremity of Africa”: Busbecq, De Re Militari, 272.

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