The Grand Turk : Sultan Mehmet II, Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire / John Freely.

By: Freely, John [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : The Overlook Press, 2009Edition: First editionDescription: xvii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781590202487; 1590202481Subject(s): Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481 | Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481 | 1451-1481 | Kings and rulers | Turkey -- History -- Mehmed II, 1451-1481 | Turkey -- Kings and rulers -- Biography | TurkeyGenre/Form: History | Biography.DDC classification: 956.1/01/52092 LOC classification: DR501 | .F74 2009
Contents:
The sons of Osman -- The boy Sultan -- The conquest of Constantinople -- Istanbul, capital of the Ottoman Empire -- Europe in terror -- War with Venice -- The house of Felicity -- The Renaissance court in Istanbul -- The conquest of Negroponte -- Victory over the White Sheep -- Conquest of the Crimea and Albania -- The siege of Rhodes -- The capture of Otranto -- Death of the conqueror -- The sons of the conqueror -- The tide of conquest turns -- The conqueror's city.
Summary: A portrait of the Turkish conqueror offers insight into the factors and characteristics that enabled his capture of Constantinople; his thirty-year reign; and his confrontations in the face of papal crusades.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-251) and index.

The sons of Osman -- The boy Sultan -- The conquest of Constantinople -- Istanbul, capital of the Ottoman Empire -- Europe in terror -- War with Venice -- The house of Felicity -- The Renaissance court in Istanbul -- The conquest of Negroponte -- Victory over the White Sheep -- Conquest of the Crimea and Albania -- The siege of Rhodes -- The capture of Otranto -- Death of the conqueror -- The sons of the conqueror -- The tide of conquest turns -- The conqueror's city.

A portrait of the Turkish conqueror offers insight into the factors and characteristics that enabled his capture of Constantinople; his thirty-year reign; and his confrontations in the face of papal crusades.

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