Leading his army in person, Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent besieged Szigetvár Castle in Baranya (near the present day Hungarian and Croatian border) with his military force of more than 80,000 soldiers in the summer of 1566.

While his death was kept secret at great effort, Ottoman Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, the acting operational commander, continued to lead the battle.

[1][3] It is assumed that the heart and the intestines of Sultan Suleiman were removed following his death and buried somewhere in Szigetvár[4] before his embalmed corpse was taken back to the Empire's capital on a more-than-two-month-long trek.

[2] The park was jointly inaugurated by Hungarian Minister of Education Gábor Fodor and Turkish President Süleyman Demirel in September 1994.

Open to visitors all year long, the park has a triumphal arch-like gate and is walled by a waist-high oriental ornamented fence.

[8] The park area itself is leased to the Turkish government for a symbolic annual rental price of HUF 1 for a time span of 99 years, beginning 1994.