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A gripping biography of one of the very most sensational information in Turkish background!Sultan Mehmet II, known to his countrymen as -the Conqueror- also to much of Europe as -the Terror of the World,- was once Europe-s most feared and powerful ruler. Now, Turkey-s most loved American scholar, John Freely, brings to life this charismatic hero of one of the richest histories in the world.Mehmet was barely twenty-one when he conquered Byzantine Constantinople, which became Istanbul and the capital of his mighty empire. Mehmet reigned for thirty years, where time his armies expanded the borders of his empire halfway across Asia Small and as way into Europe as Hungary and Italy. Three popes called for crusades against him as Religious Europe came in person with a new Muslim empire.Revered by the Turks and regarded as a brutal tyrant by the Western world, Mehmet was an excellent military leader as well as a renaissance prince. His judge housed Persian and Turkish poets, Arab and Greek astronomers, and Italian scholars and musicians and artists. Within the first biography of Mehmet in thirty years, John Freely vividly illuminates the person behind the misconceptions.
