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2 days ago · Mehmed, pronounced [icinˈdʒi ˈmehmet]; 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 twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from August 1444 to September 1446 and then later from February 1451 to May 1481.
23 hours ago · Patriarch Gennadios with Sultan Mehmed II. In accordance with the traditional custom at the time, Sultan Mehmed II allowed his troops and his entourage three full days of unbridled pillage and looting in the city shortly after it was captured. Once the three days passed, he would then claim its remaining contents for himself.
2 days ago · On the afternoon of May 29, Sultan Mehmed II entered the city on horseback and rode straight to the Hagia Sophia. When 21-year-old Mehmed the Conqueror first entered the great church in 1453, it had been standing for nearly a 1,000 years. Sultan Mehmed II also spoke Greek and understood the meaning of Hagia Sophia.
Mehmed II also wrote a proclaim to the regular citizens to give up and become vassals instead of slaves or corpses. Of course like everything on history one should take it with a pinch of salt, but since the Ottoman chroniclers did not contest it (same with what is said of the emperor falling while fighting) we got as much confirmation as we ...
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1 day ago · Sultan Mehmed II entered the city and performed the Friday prayer and khutbah (sermon) in Hagia Sophia, and this action marked the official conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque. The church's priests and religious personnel continued to perform Christian rites, prayers, and ceremonies until they were compelled to stop by the invaders. [105]
4 days ago · Mehmed II, who became Ottoman sultan in 1451, directed all his resources to the capture of Constantinople. Constantine did everything within his power to organize the defense of the city and to enlist the support of the West by acknowledging the obedience of the Greek church to Rome, but in vain.
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