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	Mehmet II the Conqueror - All About Turkey
		Mehmet II, called the Conqueror, born in March 30, 1432, died in May 3, 1481, sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444-46, 1451-81), extended Ottoman control of southeastern Europe to the Danube and of Anatolia to the Euphrates.
		Mehmet subsequently conquered Serbia in 1459 and the Morea by 1460, extending the empire in Europe to the Danube and the Aegean despite resistance from Albania and Venice, with which he warred between 1463 and 1479.
		Mehmet The Conqueror was the seventh sultan in the Ottoman Dynasty.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /mehmet2.htm (347 words)

	Mehmed II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mehmed II (also known as el-Fatih (الفاتح), "the Conqueror", in Ottoman Turkish, or, in modern Turkish, Fatih Sultan Mehmet) (March 30, 1432 – May 3, 1481) (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثانى Mehmed-i sānī) was first the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time from 1444 to 1446, and later from 1451 to 1481.
		Mehmed II was born in Edirne, then the capital city of the Ottoman state, on March 30, 1432.
		Mehmed II advanced toward Eastern Europe as far as Belgrade, and attempted to conquer the city from John Hunyadi at the Siege of Belgrade in 1456.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mehmed_II (1494 words)

	Sultan Mehmet II - Olga's Gallery
		Sultan Mehmet II In 1479, the Republic of Venice sent Gentile Bellini to Constantinople to paint the portrait of Sultan Mehmet II.
		Mehmet II was born in 1433, the third of Murad’s sons.
		Mehmet received her warmly and engaged her for some time in conversation; when she returned to the harem she found her infant son had been murdered in his bath.
	www.abcgallery.com /list/2001july16.html (1051 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Mehmet
		Muhammad III MUHAMMAD III [Muhammad III] or Mehmet III, 1567-1603, Ottoman sultan (1595-1603), son and successor of Murad III to the throne of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
		Muhammad II MUHAMMAD II [Muhammad II] or Mehmet II (Muhammad the Conqueror), 1429-81, Ottoman sultan (1451-81), son and successor of Murad II.
		The statue of Sultan Mehmet II "The Conqueror" in Istanbul.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Mehmet (654 words)

	Ottoman
		Mehmet II was born on 29th March 1432, in Edirne.
		He was a tall, strong and muscular man. Mehmet II was a statesman and a military leader.
		Mehmet II was ascended the throne in his 20th year.He took the name "conqueror" (fatih) after the conquest of Istanbul on 29th May 1453.
	www.theottomans.org /english/family/mehmet2.asp (381 words)

	rulers
		The reign of Sultan Murat II was essentially one of consolidation, not conquest.
		Mehmet II is known as Fatih -- "the Conqueror".
		Mehmet's policy was to return authority to the centre, to give the Patriarch of Constantinople heightened authority over the Church, and to use the Church as a means to exercise his own power.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /ottoman/rulers.htm (4245 words)

	Travel Guide To Turkey, Guide de la Turquie, GUIDE MARTINE, Guide to Turkey, Guide de Turquie, Travel, Turkey, Voyage, ...
		On May 29 1453, Mehmet II conquered Constantinople and pronounced that the city would be the last capital of the Ottoman Empire.
		The relatively peaceful reign of Bayezit II (1481-1512) was marked by a few expeditions in the Aegean Sea against the Greek harbours still held by the Venetians (fall of Lepanto in 1499, Modon and Coron in 1500).
		Mehmet Ali invaded Syria and Asia Minor (1831) but threatened by the Europeans, he was forced to desist.
	www.guide-martine.com /history7.asp (5185 words)

	CHRONO-FILE for BIBLICAL and EARLY CULTURES Section-7b (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1451, Sultan Mehmet II the Conqueror (1432-1481) succeeded to the throne upon the death of Murad II.
		Mehmet II surrounded the capital city with as many as 150,000 men, while Constantine could hardly muster 10,000 (generally Christian) soldiers to the cause.
		Mehmet II continue to subdue lands for the Ottoman Empire, extending into the Balkans, Southern Greece to Athens and Euboea.
	hometown.aol.com /eilatlog/chronofile/timeculture_S_07b.html (4207 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : The Topkapi Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Begun on the orders of Sultan Mehmet II between 1472 and 1478, following his conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Topkapı was later expanded by his successors as the needs of their day demanded.
		In later years, Mehmet II extended his collection not only of Islamic books but Christian ones as well, and, as his interest in books became known to the outside world, a great flood of manuscripts poured into his court - sent by other sovereigns, writers or anybody else seeking to gain his favor.
		Mehmet II even collected books written in classical Greek - works on history, religion and science - that are still among the collections of the Topkapı Palace Library.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198702/the.topkapi.collection.htm (3873 words)

	Mehmet II - Vetamera.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mehmet II Mehmet II, Ã¤ven kÃ¤nd som Muhammed II, fÃ¶dd den 30 mars 1432, dÃ¶d den 3 maj 1481, var sultan av Osmanska riket mellan 1444 och 1446 samt frÃ¥n 1451 till 1481.
		Mehmet II fÃ¶rsÃ¶kte Ã¤van fÃ¥ kontroll Ã¶ver Medelhavet och vann slaget vid Otranto Ã¥r 1480 men mÃ¶tte dÃ¤refter allt hÃ¥rdare motstÃ¥nd.
		Mehmet II avled i staden Gebze Ã¥r 1481.
	www.vetamera.com /Mehmet-II (479 words)

	Mehmed II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When Mehmed II was 11 years old he was sent to Amasya to govern and thus gain experience, as per the custom of Ottoman rulers before his time.
		Mehmed II also tried to get Muslim scientists and artists to his court in Constantinople, started a University, built mosques e.g.
		It is claimed that Mehmed II spoke six languages when he was 21 years old (the age at which he conquered Constantinople)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mehmet_II (1494 words)

	Cultural Catholic - Pope John Paul II
		Pope John Paul II was a critic of the West's materialism and the excesses of capitalism citing the growing gap between the rich and the poor.
		In 1994 Pope John Paul II suffered a thigh fracture, in 1996 Pope John Paul II underwent hip surgery, and in 1997 the pope was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
		Mehmet Ali Agca was released on parole from a Kartel Prison in Istanbul on January 12, 2006.
	www.culturalcatholic.com /PopeJohnPaulII.htm (1655 words)

	Ataman Hotel - Fatih Sultan Mehmet
		Mehmed was the fourth son of Murad II by a slave girl; at the age of 12 he was sent, as tradition required, to Manisa (Magnesia) with his two tutors.
		The commander in chief, Mehmed II himself, on the day of the attack personally directed the operations against the breach opened in the city wall by his cannon.
		One of the tasks on which Mehmed II set his heart was the restoration of the city, now popularly called Istanbul, as a worthy capital of a worldwide empire.
	www.atamanhotel.com /fatih_sultan.html (1472 words)

	[ whollyshift.info \| Mehmet II Resources ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When Mehmed II was 11 agedness matured he was sent to Amasya to govern und thus income experience, as per the wont of Ottoman rulers before her time.
		Mehmed II plane to precedent a solitary political singleton in Anatolia by capturing Turkish eventualitys yawped Beyliks und the Christian Empire of Trebizond in northeastern Anatolia und allied himself with the Golden Horde in the Crimea.
		Mehmed II amalgamated the matured Byzantine strangling into the Ottoman state, as he gathered Italian artists, humanists und Greek scholars at her court, kept the Byzantine Church functioning, establishmented the patriarch to translate the Christian hope into Turkish und yawped Gentile Bellini from Venice to paint her portrait.
	www.whollyshift.info /Mehmet_II (1598 words)

	T.C. Kultur Bakanligi / Ministry of Culture, Republic of Turkey
		However, when Murat's son Mehmet II had conquered Istanbul a number of leading Byzantine dignitaries had fled to Trabzon. They saw themselves as the Byzantine heirs to the Trabzon throne, and this gave Mehmet an idea for solving the Trabzon problem at a suitable time.
		Uzun Hasan, on hearing that Mehmet's army was marching eastwards, marshalled his own army and in the vicinity of Koyulhisar the vanguard of the Ottoman and Akkoyunlu armies met and clashed.
		In the course of Mehmet's Trabzon campaign, the land of the Çepni Beylik, which occupied either side of the Harşit Valley, the capital of which was Kürtün, was also annexed by the Ottomans.
	www.discoverturkey.com /english/yeni/trabzon/ottomans.html (2660 words)

	Mehmet le Conquérant
		Mehmet II, qui préparait une expédition vers l’Anatolie, su repousser aussi bien l’attaque des coalisés catholiques que celle des Romains et des Turcs Karamanites.
		Mehmet II montra sa détermination à agir sans perdre de temps face aux Romains, et en août 1452, il s’approcha des remparts de Constantinople, en détruisant les champs et les villages des alentours.
		Mehmet II avait terminé les préparatifs d’une deuxième expédition vers l’Egypte et s’apprêtait à partir quand il tomba malade dans son camp établi à Hünkar Cayiri à Gebze.
	www.istanbulguide.net /insolite/info/francais/mehmet.htm (1451 words)

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		However, Mehmet I (1389-1421), the Restorer, succeeded in reuniting much of the Empire and it was reconstituted by Murat II and Mehmet II.
		During the reigns of Murat II and Mehmet II the devsirme system of recruiting young Christians for conversion to Islam and service in the Ottoman army and administration was developed.
		Abdulhamit II, however, rescued the empire, at least temporarily, by reforming the Ottoman financial system, manipulating the rivalries of the European powers and developing the pan-Islamic and pan-Turkic movements to undermine the empires of his enemies.
	members.tripod.com /Bezgo003/ottoman.html (1585 words)

	Education World® - History : By Region : Middle East : Turkey : Ottoman Empire : Famous People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)*
		Bayazid II - MSN Encarta Presents a concise profile of the tumultuous reign of the fifteenth century Ottoman sultan.
		Mahmud II - MSN Encarta Chronicles the reign of the Ottoman sultan whose illfated efforts to expand his empire resulted in loosing lands to Russia, Greece, and Egypt.
		Mehmet II - Infoplease.com Profiles the reign of Muhammad the Conqueror or Mehmet II, who ruled the Ottoman empire between 1451 and 1481 AD.
	db.education-world.com /perl/browse?cat_id=11421 (603 words)

	Istanbul Fortress - Anadolu Fortress Istanbul
		After becoming sultan, Mehmet II immediately built the Rumeli Fortress and restored the Anadolu Fortress in order to prevent the passage of any reinforcements through the Bosphorus.
		Mehmet II, to the surprise of the Byzantines, took his ships to the Golden Horn over a hill near Tophane by pulling them with animal and human power on oily wood pieces.
		Mehmet II ceremoniously entered the city and this considerable victory gave him the title Fatih "conqueror" in the Islamic world.
	www.istanbulambassadorhotel.com /istanbulmap/onelocation.php?locationid=419&categoryid=26 (263 words)

	Muslim4life.com---> Islam, Peace Only... - Mohammed al-Fateh (Mehmet II) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mehmet II hadde tatt tilbake en stor del av Øst-Tyrkia, men det endelige slaget var i den erobrede hovedstaden Konstantinopel, som keiseren selv hadde kalt den.
		Mehmet II fikk tilnavnet Ftih, erobreren og ble rikets første sultan.
		Mehmet II sørget også for å utarbeide den første tyrkiske lovsamling, opprettet en regulær hær og han støttet kunst og kultur.
	www.muslim4life.com /html/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=73 (233 words)

	Mehmet II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mehmet II (1432- 1481),ruling from 1444 till 1446, and again from 1451 till 1481.
		The first time was a very problematic period, as his court was weakened by the conflict between his grand vizier Candarli Halil and the two viziers Zaganos and Sihabeddin.
		It was his father Murat II (who had abdicated the throne) who first defeated the crusaders, and later returned to office in order to bring stability back to the empire.
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /~amcdouga/Hist323/Readings/mehmet_ii.htm (563 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| The Sultan Mehmet II, attributed to Gentile Bellini (1480)
		The Sultan Mehmet II, attributed to Gentile Bellini (1480)
		In 1479 the Venetian Republic sent Gentile to Constantinople to enhance cultural relations; he was charged to paint portraits of Mehmet II and his court.
		There is a later painted inscription saying it is Mehmet II by Gentile Bellini.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /portrait/story/0,,943619,00.html (533 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Visual Arts - Eastern Exposures
		After a seven week siege, Mehmet's troops, backed by the most advanced, destructive weapons of the day, breached Constantinople's once impregnable walls, slaughtered the last Roman emperor, captured or enslaved much of the city's aristocracy, looted its palaces and its churches, many of which were converted to mosques.
		Mehmet went on to swallow up the Greek-speaking Empire of Trebizond and nearby trading colonies held by Venice and Genoa, defeated and annexed Bosnia, Serbia, and Albania, and, shortly before his mysterious death in 1481, invaded Italy itself.
		The other is purportedly the most important work Gentile created in Constantinople, his Portrait of Mehmet II (1480), now in the collection of The National Gallery, London.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2005/54636_20051223.asp (1190 words)

	Edition no. 53 - Kings or kingmakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1451 Mehmet II replaced his father, Murad II, as Sultan of the Ottoman Turks.
		Mehmet II delivered the coup de grace to the last significant remnant of the Roman Empire and bastion of the Eastern Orthodox Church by capturing Constantinople in 1453.
		Nevertheless, Mehmet became one of the greatest leaders of the Ottoman Empire.
	www.serve.com /inside/edit53/lowry.htm (1710 words)

	The Ottomans and their dynasty - All About Turkey
		A Hungarian - Polish army was decimated at Varna in 1444 by Murad II (c.1403-1451) and Ottoman conquests were virtually unchecked during the reign of his son, Mehmed II the Conqueror (1432-1481).
		Murad II attempted to limit the influence of the nobility and the gazi by elevating faithful former slaves and janissaries to administrative positions.
		Murad II continued the expansionist policy of the Ottomans, capturing Salonika and embarking on a series of campaigns against Hungary.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /ottoman.htm (1761 words)

	Constantinople - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The crushing victory of the Byzantines was a severe blow to Caliph Umar II, and the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate was severely stunted during his reign.
		Emperor John II (1118-1143) is shown on the left, with the Virgin Mary and infant Jesus in the centre, and John's wife Piroska of Hungary on the right.
		The 60-foot tall walls built by Theodosius II (413-414) were essentially invincible to the barbarians who, coming from the Lower Danube, found easier targets to the west than the richer provinces to the east in Asia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constantinople (4303 words)

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