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The Grand Turk : Sultan Mehmet II, Conqueror Of Constantinople And Master Of An Empire

Mehmed The Conqueror And His Time

  • Mehmed The Conqueror And His Time
  • Attribution

    Franz Babinger ; translated from the German by Ralph Manheim ; edited, with a pref., by William C. Hickman
  • Publication Details

    Book, Princeton University Press, 1978
  • Description

    From the famous siege of Constantinople in 1453 through the numerous other campaigns that securely established the Ottoman Empire, the events in the life of the emperor Mehmed II are the subject of this classic biography. Not surprisingly, the Turks regard him as the greatest of all sultans, a figure unparalleled in the history of the world for military prowess, statecraft, patronage of the arts and sciences.”–Robert Kirsch, The Los Angeles Times Book Review “The definitive scholarly biography of the Ottoman emperor who in 1453 conquered Constantinople. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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