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  2. Mehmed II's campaigns - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of campaigns personally led by Mehmed II (30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481) (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثانى, Meḥmed-i s̠ānī; Turkish: II.Mehmet; also known as el-Fātiḥ, الفاتح, "the Conqueror" in Ottoman Turkish; in modern Turkish, Fatih Sultan Mehmet; also called Mahomet II in early modern Europe) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire twice, first for a short time from ...

  3. Mehmed II - Wikipedia

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    The Ottoman Empire at the beginning of Mehmed II's second reign Roumeli Hissar Castle, built by Sultan Mehmed II between 1451 and 1452, before the Fall of Constantinople [12] When Mehmed II ascended the throne again in 1451, he devoted himself to strengthening the Ottoman navy and made preparations for an attack on Constantinople.

  4. Ottoman Empire–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    However, the first contact between the United States and the Ottoman central government took place when Captain William Bainbridge of the USS George Washington of the American Navy had to sail to Istanbul in 1800 upon being compelled by the Dey of Algiers to deliver the Dey's gifts and envoy to the Ottoman Sultan and Bainbridge arrive in ...

  5. Rise of the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Conquest of Constantinople on 29 May 1453 by Mehmed The Conqueror ( Fatih Sultan Mehmed Khan Ghazi ) Fatih Sultan Mehmed’s Land Transport of The Ottoman Navy from Galata into Golden Horn by Fausto Zonaro (1854–1929). Entry of Mehmed II into Constantinople by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845–1902). The Conquest of Constantinople by ...

  6. List of Ottoman princesses - Wikipedia

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    An Orphan Sultan: Foundations of Şehzade Mehmed's Daughter Hümasah Sultan. Bardakçı, Murat (2017). Neslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-9-774-16837-6. Belleten, Volume 17, Issues 65–68. Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi. 1953. Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010).

  7. Aegan Expedition (1456) - Wikipedia

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    Sultan Mehmed took this as an opportunity and sent Hadım İsmail Pasha to Lemnoz to replace Hamza Pasha as the Ottoman governor. Before Ismail Pasha's arrival on the island, a war broke out with the island's inhabitants and the sailors under the command of Giovanni Fontono and Spienta Colomboto, who were sent from Lesbos by Domenico Gattilusio.

  8. Ottoman claim to Roman succession - Wikipedia

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    This title referred to Mehmed's claim to rule both the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, as well as both Europe and Asia. [27] In Turkish, Arabic, and Persian, Mehmed and later sultans commonly used the titles padişah and sultan (Ottoman Turkish: پادشاه, سلطان). [24] Mehmed took many steps to legitimize his rule as Roman emperor.

  9. Mehmed III - Wikipedia

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    Mehmed; 26 May 1566 – 22 December 1603) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death in 1603. Mehmed was known for ordering the execution of his brothers and leading the army in the Long Turkish War, during which the Ottoman army was victorious at the decisive Battle of Keresztes.