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Camp outside Szigetvar, Hungary
1566
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Suleiman the Magnificent: A Private Life
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1566 · Camp Outside Szigetvar
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I write this in the year 1566, in the camp outside Szigetvár, where the air is wet with rot and powder and my body no longer obeys me.
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