Reign of Mehmed II
1451–1481* · Event
Took Constantinople at twenty-one and spent thirty years turning it into the capital of a world empire.
On these timelines: Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Islam, Major Religions, Master, Fall of Constantinople
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