Mehmed II

Where they went

1 related event

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   1453Fall of Constantinoplecommander

   The Ottoman Empire conquered the Byzantine capital, an event often taken to mark the end of the Middle Ages.

People who appear alongside

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  Constantine XI1405 – 1453

  Last emperor of the Byzantine Empire

Themes this person appears in

• Turkic-Islamic Empires and Other Civilizations1000 – 1533

  From the Ghaznavid raids on India to the Mughal Empire and Suleiman I — five centuries in which Turkic-led Islamic empires took western Asia and India, while Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas raised civilisations of their own

• Late Medieval Europe and the Renaissance1077 – 1517

  From Canossa to the eve of the Reformation — papal power at its height and in decline, towns and parliaments, royal power growing through the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, and the Renaissance and printing