Suleiman the Magnificent (part 3): Kanuni, the Lawgiver

Suleiman the First ruled the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, from 1520 to 1566. To the kings of Europe, dazzled by his court and his conquests, he was Suleiman the Magnificent. But to the millions who actually lived under him, he carried a different name, and it was the one that lasted: Kanuni, the Lawgiver. This episode is about the two things he built in the years after his armies reached their limit at the walls of Vienna, and why both of them outlived the empire itself. The fir...