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Murad II was the sultan who conferred on his sons and their male descendants the title of Şehzade, meaning "descendant of the Şah", replacing the simple honorific of Çelebi. The title of Şehzade remained in use until the abolition of the Ottoman Empire. Murad II had at least eight sons:
Murad II acknowledged that he could not capture the castle of Krujë by force of arms before the winter, and in October 1450, he lifted the siege and made his way to Edirne. [75] [better source needed] The Ottomans suffered 20,000 casualties during the siege, [citation needed] and many more died as Murad escaped Albania. [77]
The Muradiye Complex (Turkish: Muradiye Külliyesi) or the Complex of Sultan Murad II, the Ottoman sultan (reigned 1421–1451, with interruption 1444–46), is located in Bursa, Turkey. It is part of the historic UNESCO World Heritage Site .
Mehmed II: August 1444 – September 1446 (2 years, 1 month) First reign; Son of Murad II and Hüma Hatun. [21] Surrendered the throne to his father after having asked him to return to power, along with rising threats from Janissaries. (6) Murad II: September 1446 – 3 February 1451 (4 years, 5 months) Second reign; Forced to return to the ...
Sultan Murad II then laid siege to the fortress, surrounding it both by land and from the Danube with a fleet of about 100 ships. [10]: 175 [12] Despite breaching the walls using cannons and heavy machinery, the Turks faced staunch resistance from Ivan Talovac and his determined defenders, who repelled their attacks for weeks. Talovac's ...
Two years later in 1446, Sultan Murad II returned to the Balkans seeking revenge for the treaty breaking that preceded the battle. That year his army breached the Hexamilion wall and ravaged the Peloponnese after which, following the proclamation of a new crusade by Pope Nicholas V, Murad invaded Albania, conquering the fortress of Svetigrad. [13]
After the many failed Ottoman expeditions into Albania against the League of Lezhë, a confederation of Albanian Principalities created in 1444 and headed by Skanderbeg, Murad II decided to march an army into Skanderbeg's dominions in order to capture the key Albanian fortress of Svetigrad. The fortress lay on an important route between present ...
The Battle of Varna took place on 10 November 1444 near Varna in what is today eastern Bulgaria.The Ottoman army under Sultan Murad II (who did not actually rule the sultanate at the time) defeated the Crusaders commanded by King Władysław III of Poland and Hungary, John Hunyadi (acting as commander of the combined Christian forces) and Mircea II of Wallachia.