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Mehmed IIbyname Mehmed the Conqueror(born March 30, 1432, Adrianople, Thrace, Ottoman Empire—died May 3, 1481, near Constantinople) Ottoman sultan (1444–46, 1451–81). His father, Murad II, abdicated in his favour when Mehmed was 12 but reclaimed the throne two years later in the aftermath of a Christian Crusade. Mehmed regained the throne when his father died (1451) and began to plan the conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul), the feat for which he is most renowned. In 1453 he captured the city and undertook returning it to its previous level of grandeur. In the next 25 years he conquered large sections of the Balkans. Under his reign, criminal and civil laws were codified in one body of law; he collected a library of Greek and Latin works and had eight colleges built. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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When Constantinople fell to Mehmed II in 1453, more than a century before Lepanto, the Turks believed themselves to be on the road to universal dominion. Still, Babinger's book, despite its omissions and even factual errors in spots, remains the most useful single volume on Mehmed II (1432-1481), the man who dealt the death blow to the Byzantine Empire, who saw himself as the new Alexander the Great whose goal was to conquer the West, who "dreamed of carrying his arms at least to Rome and of raising the victorious crescent banner over the Churches of Christendom" (494). |
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