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Suleiman I ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566, leading campaigns in Hungary, the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, and surrounding regions. His forces captured Belgrade and Rhodes, defeated Hungary at Mohacs, and unsuccessfully besieged Vienna in 1529. Known in Ottoman tradition as Kanuni, or the...
Hammurabi was the sixth king of Babylon's First Dynasty and ruled during the eighteenth century BCE. Through warfare and diplomacy, he brought much of Mesopotamia under Babylonian control, although his empire fragmented after his death. He is chiefly known for the Code of Hammurabi, a collection of...
Yaroslav the Wise was grand prince of Kiev for most of the period from 1019 to 1054 and one of the principal rulers of Kievan Rus. His reign is associated with the early compilation of the Russkaya Pravda law code, the construction of Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, and extensive dynastic marriages...
