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Prince Mehmed Reşad was born on 2 November 1844, at the Çırağan Palace, [4] Constantinople. [5] His father was Sultan Abdulmejid I, and his mother was Gülcemal Kadın.He had three elder sisters, Fatma Sultan, [6] Refia Sultan and Hatice Sultan (Refia Sultan's twin sister, died in infancy). [7]
Mehmed IV (Ottoman Turkish: محمد رابع, romanized: Meḥmed-i rābi; Turkish: IV. Mehmed; 2 January 1642 – 6 January 1693), nicknamed as Mehmed the Hunter (Turkish: Avcı Mehmed), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. He came to the throne at the age of six after his father was overthrown in a coup.
Mehmed II uses the Basilica cannon to penetrate the Theodosian Walls. In a flashback to Mehmed's childhood, the narration goes back to when Murad II appoints his teenage son as the governor of the Amasya Province. Afterwards, Mehmed II starts with first reign of the Ottoman Empire at the age of 13—becoming the youngest king in Ottoman history.
The Third Siege of Krujë (Albanian: Rrethimi i tretë i Krujës) by the Ottoman Empire took place in the summer of 1467 in Krujë in Albania.. The destruction of Ballaban Pasha's army and the siege of Elbasan during the previous siege of Krujë forced Mehmed II to attack Skanderbeg again in the summer of 1467, only 2 months after the latter's victory in the previous siege.
The Green Tomb (Turkish: Yeşil Türbe) is a mausoleum of the fifth Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed I, in Bursa, Turkey. It was built by Mehmed's son and successor Murad II following the death of the sovereign in 1421. The architect Hacı Ivaz Pasha designed the tomb and the Yeşil Mosque opposite to it. [1]
Its main part is a biography of the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II, the Conqueror, to whom the work was also dedicated. Writing under Ottoman rule, Critobulus expressed admiration for Mehmet in his work, and combined mourning for the Greek loss with an acceptance of the shift of power to the Ottoman Turks , which he interpreted as a divinely ordained ...
The Vajkal valley is situated in a region that functions as the passage between Dibra and Mati. [7] Although different scholarly opinions have been formulated on the location of the battle of Vajkal - including possible locations near Dibra and Ohrid - the battle undoubtedly occurred near the modern village of Vajkal in Dibër and the corresponding Fusha e Vajkalit (the Field of Vajkal), which ...
In 1464, Sultan Mehmed moved to Bosnia for the second time. The sultan tried to take the castle of Jajce, wanting to besiege and destroy it, but could not.The aim of the Hungarian king who came to Bosnia during the siege of this place was to pull Sultan Mehmed on himself and save the Jajce castle from siege.