SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT SEIZES VIENNA

What was the situation leading up to the Siege of Vienna in 1529?

You have this period of enormous buildup. [There was] a significant period of build-up under Mehmed II, who reigned from 1451 to 1481, and then after him his son Bayezid II, [and] then you have following him this important period of development with Selim I and his main area of interest [being] Egypt and the Holy Land, the Levant, Syria, that region. And that provided an enormous amount of new territory for the Ottomans and a new source of income and taxes and such. And then when you get to Suleiman, he inherits all of that and starts his reign in the 1520s. And he’s looking again with greater interest at Eastern Europe. And one of the things that he does that is seen as important to the lead up is his