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5 days ago · May 29, 1453. Location: Turkey. Participants: Byzantine Empire. Ottoman Empire. Key People: Constantine XI Palaeologus. Mehmed II. Fall of Constantinople, (May 29, 1453), conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire.
4 days ago · The Ottoman Empire was free, for several decades, from any further serious attempts to push it out of Europe. Background. In 1439, the Ottoman army headed by Murad II again attacked and sacked Serbia. Đurađ Branković fled to Hungary in May 1439, leaving his son Grgur Branković and Thomas Kantakouzenos to defend Smederevo.
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21 hours ago · As the Ottoman Empire began to decline in the 18th and 19th centuries, the opulence and grandeur of Topkapı Palace also faded. In 1853, Sultan Abdül Mecid I made the decision to move the court to the newly built Dolmabahçe Palace, marking the end of Topkapı‘s reign as the seat of Ottoman power. However, the palace‘s legacy was far from ...
5 days ago · Mehmed I (died May 26, 1421, Edirne, Ottoman Empire) was an Ottoman sultan who reunified the dismembered Ottoman territories following the defeat of Ankara (1402). He ruled in Anatolia and, after 1413, in the Balkans as well.
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2 days ago · 1985 (9th Session) Hagia Sophia ( lit. ' Holy Wisdom '; Turkish: Ayasofya; Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized : Hagía Sofía; Latin: Sancta Sapientia ), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi ), [3] is a mosque and former church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey.
5 days ago · The Ottoman Empire, 1300–1650: the Structure of Power. Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002, ISBN: 333613873X; 419pp.; Price: £16.99. Ottoman histories – better put: histories of the Ottoman state – have some right to be regarded in a pseudo-Braudelian sense as une historiographie du longue durée. Richard Knolles’s massive folio, Generall ...
3 days ago · It provides images of pieces in a collection that once belonged to the powerful Ottoman dynasty. At the height of its power in the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire stretched from North Africa to Iran, the Balkans to the Arabian Peninsula.
