The Suleymaniye Mosque built by the greatest builder of the empire and its greatest general: Suleyman the Magnificant. It is also his final resting along with his wife Roxanne. This mosque, built in the mid-16th century, sits on a large hill overlooking the city. Suleyman would reverse a series of setbacks and enlarge the empire to its greatest size. During his reign, the Ottoman empire stretched from Morrocco and Spain in the west to Persia,the Caucasus and the Steppes in the East. It also controlled much of the Levant, the Holy Lands, Egypt and Northern Africa. In the north it covered most of south east Europe including the Balkans. Suleyman pushed to the very gates of Vienna which he beseiged although he was never able to capture Vienna. If he had, much of Europe would be Muslim today.