Who were the new territories in Ottoman Empire?

The Ottoman Empire's new territories in the 16th century included:

- Hungary (Ottoman Hungary, with suzerainty over rump-Hungary beyond Ottoman direct rule)

- Balkans (except southern Greece)

- North Africa (Tripolitania, Tunisia, and Algeria)

- Egypt

- Levant (including Syria and Eretz Israel, with suzerainty over Transjordan)

- Hejaz (including Madinah and Mecca)

- Iraq (Mesopotamia)

- Eastern Arabia (Al-Hasa)

- Part of the Caucasus (Dagestan, Azerbaijan, Eastern Armenia, and Western Georgia)

- Southeastern Europe (Rumelia, including Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Thrace, Macedonia and Greece, except the southern tip)

- Anatolia

- Cyprus

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