Mohammed II

American  

Or Muhammad II

noun

1. the Conqueror, 1430–81, sultan of Turkey 1451–81: conqueror of Constantinople 1453.

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Mohammed II British  

noun

1. ?1430–81, Ottoman sultan of Turkey (1451–81). He captured Constantinople (1453) and conquered large areas of the Balkans

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Mohammed II

When Mohammed II in 1453 wrested Constantinople from the last of the Caesars, Constantine XI Palaeologus, he barely missed capturing the papal ambassador, Cardinal Isidore of Russia, as an extra prize.

From Time Magazine Archive

"There," he can say, looking out at the water over the fortress of Rumeli Hissar, which Sultan Mohammed II built in 1452, "there is where it happened."

From Time Magazine Archive

Through the Dark Age the Greek cities had maintained a continuous life, but Mohammed II depopulated Constantinople to repeople it with a Turkish majority from Anatolia.

From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Forbes, Nevill

Then, counting from his right, come Mohammed II.,

From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)

The Ottoman Empire soon recovered from the blow inflicted by Timur, and Constantinople was taken and the Eastern Empire finally overthrown by the Sultan Mohammed II in 1453.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various