Selim defeated another Turkmen uprising in Anatolia in 1520 and had
begun a campaign in Rumelia in 1520 when he died suddenly. In eight years,
he had transformed the Ottoman Empire from a peripheral into a central
power in the Islamic world, making it perhaps the most powerful empire in the world in his time. No other Ottoman ruler assembled a chain of great
victories comparable to his. His only son, Sulayman, succeeded him.