<Tr> <Td> 1541 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Conquest of Buda and establishment of Ottoman rule over Hungary . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1551 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Siege of Tripoli (1551). Tripoli is taken over . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1552 </Td> <Td> August </Td> <Td> Capture of Muscat . Muscat in the management of the Portuguese Empire, Seized by the Ottomans . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1555 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Peace of Amasya signed with the Safavid Empire . Western Armenia (Eastern Anatolia), western Georgia (incl . western Samtskhe), and western Kurdistan fall in Ottoman hands . The latter also gained control over most of Mesopotamia (Iraq). Eastern Armenia, Eastern Georgia (incl . eastern Samtskhe), Dagestan, and Shirvan (present - day Azerbaijan Republic) remain under Safavid rule . </Td> </Tr>

When did the ottoman empire begin and end