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Mehmed II was an Ottoman sultan who ruled from August 1444 to September 1446, and then later from February 1451 to May 1481. In Mehmed II's first reign, he defeated the crusade led by John Hunyadi after the Hungarian incursions into his country broke the conditions of the truce Peace of Szeged. When Mehmed II ascended the throne again in 1451 he strengthened the Ottoman navy and made preparations to attack Constantinople. At the age of 21, he conquered Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and brought an end to the Byzantine Empire.
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Mehmed II was born on , in;Edirne, then the capital city of the;Ottoman state. His father was Sultan;Murad II;(1404–1451) and his mother;Hüma Hatun, a slave of uncertain origin.
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Amasya
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Kosovo
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Kruje, Albania
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Edirne, Turkey

Anadoluhisarı Fortress, Istanb
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Istanbul, Turkey
The attacking Ottoman army, which significantly outnumbered Constantinople's defenders, was commanded by the 21-eventYear-old Sultan Mehmed II (later called "the Conqueror"), while the Byzantine army was led by Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos. After conquering the city, Mehmed II made Constantinople the new Ottoman capital, replacing Adrianople. The Fall of Constantinople marked the end of the Byzantine Empire, and effectively the end of the Roman Empire, a state which dated back to 27 BC and lasted nearly 1,500 years. The capture of Constantinople, a city which marked the divide between Europe and Asia Minor, also allowed the Ottomans to more effectively invade mainland Europe, eventually leading to Ottoman control of much of the Balkan peninsula.
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Belgrade, Serbia
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Smederevo, Serbia
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Mistra, Greece
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Trebizond, Turkey
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Târgoviște, Romania
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Bobovac, Bosnia
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Albania
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Otlukbeli, Turkey
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Războieni, Romania
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Shkodër, Albania
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Otranto, Italy
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References
- Babinger, Franz (1992). Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time. Bollingen Series 96. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Edited, with a preface, by William C. Hickman. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-09900-6. OCLC 716361786.
- Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994) [1987]. The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08260-4.
- Finkel, Caroline (2007). Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1923. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02396-7.
- Imber, Colin, The Ottoman Empire, 1300–1650: The Structure of Power. 2nd Edition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. ISBN 978-0-230-57451-9
- İnalcık; Halil, Review of Mehmed the Conqueror and his Time
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