Has Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent’s tomb been found in Hungary?
Posted On: Oct 9th, 2016 at 11:16
Hungary / Turkey
He was the most powerful of all the Ottoman Empire’s leaders, and now his tomb has apparently been discovered in Hungary.
Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (Suleiman I), who reigned from 1520 until his death in 1566, was the longest running sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman’s had finally crushed the Roman Empire at Constantinople less than a hundred years earlier in 1453, and they were a force to be reckoned with, and by the time Suleiman I came to power the empire was at its height. Beginning in 1299 and mainly fighting against Roman rule in Asia Minor, the Ottoman’s were so influential they were still in power during the first quarter of the 20th century.
It has always been known the Suleiman I died in Szigetvar, Hungary, in September 1566, just a few hours before his huge army defeated the Habsburgs who were defending the castle there. As the story goes, the Ottomans wanted to return his body to Constantinople but weather forced them back, so they removed his organs and buried them, and made a shrine over the place where they were buried. That shrine was destroyed by the Habsburgs who retook control in the 1680s, and ever since the exact location has been “lost”. Now, though, it may have just resurfaced…
