Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Pasi paSultan Selim I (1512-1520), vaOttoman vakakunda vaSafavid muhondo yeChaldeiran (1514). Mutsivi wake, Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566), Umambo hweOttoman hwakaratidzira mugumo wesimba rahwo nokubudirira pamwe chete nokukura kukuru kwazvo kwehurumende yahwo, nzanga, uye gadziriro dzezvemari. Zvarakanga ratodzora Balkan, rakakwanisa kupinda muHungary uye kukunda muHondo yeMohács (1526). Zvisinei, kumwe kufambira mberi kwakakundikana pashure pokunge
Kukombwa kweVienna (1529). Pashure pokukunda muhondo yePreveza (1538) uye Hondo yeDjerba (1560), vaOttoman vakavawo simba guru raiva mugungwa reMediterranean. Rwendo rwomugungwa rwakasvika kuAceh Sultanate muna 1565. Pakutanga kwezana remakore rechi17, umambo hwacho hwakanga hwava nemapurovhinzi 32 uye nyika dzakawanda dzaitongwa nahwo. Mamwe acho akazoiswa muUmambo hweOttoman, nepo mamwe akapiwa kuzvitonga kwakasiyana-siyana kwemazana emakore.