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[53] [67] [68] After appointing Turahan's son Ömer as his governor in the Morea, Mehmed returned to Adrianople in early autumn. [66] [69] The Sultan carried off thousands of prisoners captured during his campaign, who were resettled in Constantinople and its suburbs, as part of Mehmed's efforts to restore his new capital to its former glory ...
Mehmed II's ahidnâme to the Catholic monks of the recently conquered Bosnia issued in 1463, granting them full religious freedom and protection The despot of Serbia, Lazar Branković , died in 1458, and a civil war broke out among his heirs that resulted in the Ottoman conquest of Serbia in 1459/1460.
The Ottoman reconquest of the Morea took place in June–September 1715, during the Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War.The Ottoman army, under Grand Vizier Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, aided by the fleet under Kapudan Pasha ('Grand Admiral') Canım Hoca Mehmed Pasha, conquered the Morea (more commonly known as the Peloponnese) peninsula in southern Greece, which had been captured by the Republic of ...
This is a list of campaigns personally led by Mehmed II (30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481) (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثانى, Meḥmed-i s̠ānī; Turkish: II.Mehmet; also known as el-Fātiḥ, الفاتح, "the Conqueror" in Ottoman Turkish; in modern Turkish, Fatih Sultan Mehmet; also called Mahomet II in early modern Europe) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire twice, first for a short time from ...
Mehmed led a campaign against the Kingdom of Bosnia and annexed it to the Ottoman Empire: Morea 1463 Mehmed led a campaign in the Morea, which ended with the annexation of the Despotate of Morea. Albania 1466-1467 Mehmed led a campaign against Albania and conducted the unsuccessful Siege of Krujë against the Albanians under Skanderbeg. Karaman ...
Morea and Bulgaria were connected to the Ottoman State. This began to increase the authority of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans. 1448: October 17–20: Battle of Kosovo II. Balkans fully entered Ottoman rule. 1453: May 29: Mehmed II (the Conqueror) captures Constantinople, and the final Byzantine emperor Constantine XI dies in the fighting. 1459
All of its defenders were killed. After its conquest Suleiman said that it was one of the cities he had conquered and that it must be improved. He ordered towers to be built around the fortress and a moat around it filled with water from Sava. Suleiman spent 10 full days on the Sava at Šabac overseeing the construction of the pontoon bridge. 1522
Upon making Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) the new capital of the Ottoman Empire in 1453, Mehmed II assumed the title of Kayser-i Rûm (literally Caesar Romanus, i.e. Roman Emperor.) In order to consolidate this claim, he would launch a campaign to conquer Rome, the western capital of the former Roman Empire.