Where to watch The Magnificent Century (2011–2014)

Trivia & production notes

• The series was the most expensive project in Turkish television history, with a production budget of 130 million Turkish liras.
• A 2,100 square-meter plateau was constructed for filming, with 30 sculptors and painters creating exact replicas of Ottoman structures.
• Turkey's Radio and Television Supreme Council received over 70,000 complaints about the show's portrayal of the sultan, which some viewers called disrespectful and hedonistic.
• Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemned the show despite its role in promoting Turkish culture globally, warning that it portrayed history negatively to younger generations.
• The series reached 200 million viewers across more than 50 countries, making it a global phenomenon despite domestic controversy.
• In Bangladesh, the show achieved the highest TV ratings within its first two months of broadcast in 2015 under the name Sultan Suleiman.
• The series prompted North Macedonia's parliament to pass legislation in 2012 requiring increased airtime for domestic productions due to concerns about Turkish cultural influence.
• A Greek metropolitan bishop and the Golden Dawn party publicly condemned the show and urged Greeks not to watch it, calling it a surrender to Turkey.
• The show contains multiple historical anachronisms, including Ottoman characters using tables that weren't adopted until the 1800s and cooking with tomatoes centuries before their introduction to Ottoman cuisine.
• In one episode, Sultan Suleiman recites a phrase from a poem written in 1870, nearly 400 years after his reign ended.

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