Did the Ottoman Empire ever extend into Persia?

Question

What have been there past relations with each other?

Answer 1

YES .

Answer 2

The Ottoman Empire at its height extended into Persia (modern day Iran). The Ottoman Empire covered Turkey, Iraq, Iran, part of Saudia Arabia, Israel, Syria and Jordan. Its downfall was World War One when it was split up amongst the Arabs ( King Feisal and his family) who helped the British during WW1. From memory the capital was Constantinople.

Answer 3

Yes it did. The long reign of sultan Suleyman (r. 1520-66) marks the apogee of political, economic, and cultural development under the Ottomans. Known in English as "the Magnificent" because of the splendors of his court, he is usually known in Turkish as kanuni, or "law-giver," because he issued a set of laws that harmonized traditional Islamic and Ottoman legal codes. His given name, the Arabic and Turkish form of Solomon, encouraged the sultan to consider himself a worthy successor to his namesake, the biblical king celebrated in the Koran and Muslim lore. One of the sultan's many architectural projects was the refurbishment of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, which was believed to stand on the site of the Jewish temple built by King Solomon.

Suleyman inherited a vast empire and an efficient administration, and his reign was punctuated with military campaigns toward the east and west. He repeatedly took up arms against his rivals, the Shiite Safavids in Iran, capturing the major Shiite shrines in Baghdad and southern Iraq. He also became a major protagonist in European and Mediterranean affairs, waging seven campaigns into Hungary and defeating the combined Venetian-Spanish fleets at the battle of Preveza in September 1538. Suleyman died while besieging the city of Szigetvar, a few hours before it fell on September 7, 1566. When Süleyman died in 1566, the Ottoman Empire was a world power. Most of the great cities of Islam--Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Damascus, Cairo, Tunis, and Baghdad--were under the sultan's crescent flag. The Porte exercised direct control over Anatolia, the sub-Danubian Balkan provinces, Syria, Palestine, and Mesopotamia. Egypt, Mecca, and the North African provinces were governed under special regulations, as were satellite domains in Arabia and the Caucasus, and among the Crimean Tartars. In addition, the native rulers of Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania, and Ragusa (Dubrovnik) were vassals of the sultan.



Go to the second link for a map of the various expansions of the Ottoman Empire.

Answer 4

I don't know... but they make lovely boxes to put your stuff in!!!