Ottomans · 1522
Siege of Rhodes
After a six-month siege the knights surrendered and were allowed to leave. They moved to Malta, where they would meet the Ottomans again in 1565.
Key facts
- When
- 1522
- Where
- Rhodes, Greece
- Sides
- Ottomans vs Knights Hospitaller
- Commanders
- Suleiman I vs Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
- Result
- Ottoman victory
- Type
- Ottomans
- Chapter
- 5. The Ottomans
Who led it
- Suleiman the Magnificent1494 to 1566
The longest reigning sultan, at 46 years.
The wider picture: Three gunpowder empires
Mehmed II took Constantinople in 1453. Selim I conquered Egypt in 1517 and the caliphate passed to the Ottomans. Suleiman won at Mohacs in 1526, and a second siege of Vienna failed in 1683. Further east, Safavid Iran and the Mughals of India ruled at the same time.
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