Mehmed II (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثانى, romanized: Meḥmed-i s̱ānī; Turkish: II. Mehmet, pronounced [icinˈdʒi ˈmehmet]; 30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481), commonly...

The Portrait of Mehmet II is a painting by the Venetian artist Gentile Bellini, depicting the Ottoman sultan, Mehmet the Conqueror, now in the National...

Nasiraeddin Mehmed II of Karaman, also Mehmed Beg (Turkish: Mehmet Bey), Mehmed Beg II or Nasir al-Din Mehmed Beg (1379 - 1423) was the Bey ruler of Karaman...

Mehmet Cengiz Öz (/məˈmɛt ˈdʒɛŋɡɪz ɒz/ meh-MET JENG-gihz oz; Turkish: [mehˈmet dʒeɲˈɟiz øz]; born June 11, 1960), also known as Dr. Oz (/ɒz/), is an American...

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...

Mehmet Tobias Scholl (born Mehmet Tobias Yüksel; 16 October 1970) is a German football manager and former player. He played most of his career as an attacking...

Mehmet Ali Ağca (Turkish pronunciation: [mehˈmet ɑˈli ˈɑːdʒɑ]; born 9 January 1958) is a Turkish hitman and former member of the Grey Wolves. He murdered...

Sayd', a grandson of Cem (1459–1496, the renegade son of Turkish Sultan Mehmet II) settled in Malta and became the ancestor of all Maltese bearing the surname...

publisher (link) Freely, John (28 February 2009). The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II - Conqueror of Constantinople, Master of an Empire and Lord of Two Seas...

Karamani Mehmet Pasha (died 4 May 1481) was an Ottoman statesman who served as Grand Vizier from 1477 to 1481. Karamani was born in Konya and was a descendant...

Pope did his best: he addressed an eloquent letter to the Ottoman ruler, Mehmet II, urging him to become a Christian. The pope even suggested that if Mehmed...

II 1421-1451 Mehmet II (Fatih) 1451-1481 Selim I (Yavuz) 1512-1520 Süleyman I (Kanuni) 1520-1566 Mehmet III 1595-1603 Osman II 1618-1622 Mustafa II 1695-1703...

Portrait of Mehmed II Smelling a Rose (ca. 1480-81) The painting Portrait of Mehmed II Smelling a Rose was created based on Portrait of Mehmet II (ca. 1480) by...

added to Mehmed's harem as his child sex slave. Critobulus confirms that Mehmet II took slaves during the fall of Constantinople and noted that: "As for...

Gennadius II of Constantinople (Greek: Γεννάδιος; lay name: Γεώργιος Κουρτέσιος Σχολάριος, Georgios Kourtesios Scholarios; c. 1400 – c. 1472) was a Byzantine...

after defeating the Moldavian armies in the Battle of Valea Albă, Sultan Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire compelled Moldavian voivode Ștefan cel Mare to retreat...

Karaman Bey's two brothers. After Karaman Bey died in 1262, his older son, Mehmet I of Karaman, became the head of the house. He immediately negotiated alliances...

allowed into the Ottoman imperial court. Radu later participated alongside Mehmet II, now Sultan, in the Ottoman siege which eventually led to the Fall of...

a much less famous but far more definitive conclusion at the hands of Mehmet II and the Ottoman Empire in the year 1453. Its expert military and diplomatic...

history of the Ottoman conquest of the Eastern Roman Empire under Sultan Mehmet II. Critobulus' work, along with the writings of Doukas, Laonicus Chalcondyles...

1981, in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca while he was entering the square. The Pope was struck...

Mehmet of Karaman may mean: Mehmet I of Karaman (reigned 1261–1277), bey of Karamanid Principality Mehmet II of Karaman (reigned 1402–1423), bey of Karamanid...

the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, the threat Mehmet II posed to the pocket empire had increased. David's brother John had spent...

(caravanserai) in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded by Mahmud Pasha, the grand vizier of Mehmet II, it was completed in 1467 and is the oldest surviving caravanserai in...

Square to address an audience on 13 May 1981, John Paul II was shot and critically wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca, an expert Turkish gunman who was a member of...

who opposed Murat II's (1421-1451) enthronement of his young son Mehmet II. Even though the Janissaries could not dethrone Murat II, they still made the...

dependent on the selection and education of statesmen. A vital component of Mehmet II's goal to revive the Ottoman Empire was to establish a special school to...

severe casualties on Skanderbeg's forces and soon received high favor from Mehmet II. He soon appointed Ballaban and Jakup Arnauti—both Albanian peasants by...

highness, you must know that I have broken the peace with him (Sultan Mehmet II). The Christian Bulgarians were spared and many of them were settled in...

Belgrade of 1456, began after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 when Mehmet II set his sights on the Kingdom of Hungary. The Ottoman forces were defeated...