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Bookmark or Share- PBS - Islam: Empire of Faith - Profiles - MehmetMehmed II (r. 1444-46 and 1451-81) was one of the most illustrious of the long line of Ottoman sultans. His name is the Turkish form of Muhammad, but he is often known by his epithet "the ...
- Mehmed II - WikipediaEven after Vlad's untimely death several months later Stephen continued to support, with force of arms, a variety of contenders to the Wallachian throne succeeding after Mehmet's death to instate Vlad Călugărul, half brother to Vlad the Impaler, for a period of 13 years from 1482 to 1495.
- Mehmed II - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMehmed II (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثانى, romanized: Meḥmed-i s̱ānī; Turkish: II. Mehmed, pronounced [icinˈdʒi ˈmehmed]; 30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (Ottoman Turkish: ابو الفتح, romanized: Ebū'l-fetḥ, lit. 'the Father of Conquest'; Turkish: Fâtih Sultan Mehmed), was an Ottoman sultan who ruled from August 1444 to September 1446 ...
- Ottoman Empire - Mehmed II, Expansion, Legacy | BritannicaOttoman Empire - Mehmed II, Expansion, Legacy: Under Sultan Mehmed II (ruled 1451–81) the devşirme increasingly came to dominate and pressed their desire for new conquests in order to take advantage of the European weakness created at Varna. Constantinople became their first objective. To Mehmed and his supporters, the Ottoman dominions in Europe could never reach their full extent or be ...
- Mehmed II | Biography, The Conqueror, Accomplishments, Cannon ...Mehmed II, Ottoman sultan (1444–46 and 1451–81) who expanded the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia and into the Balkans, capturing Constantinople along the way. He first took the throne at the age of 12 when his father, Murad II, abdicated. Murad was later restored, and Mehmed became sultan again upon his death.
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