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The Sultans Trail is a new long-distance footpath from Vienna to Istanbul. It is around 2.133 km long. The path passes Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Turkey. Sultans Trail takes its name from sultan Süleyman Kanuni, Suleiman the Magnificent, of the Ottoman Empire. Suleiman personally led Ottoman armies to conquer Belgrade and most of Hungary before his conquests were checked at the Siege of Vienna in 1529. It was to be the Ottoman Empire's most ambitious expedition to the west, but the Austrians inflicted upon Suleiman his first defeat. A second attempt to conquer Vienna failed in 1532.

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