The Grand Turk Sultan Mehmet II - Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire

by Freely, John

• ISBN13: 9781590204009
• ISBN10: 159020400X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-28
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

Sultan Mehmet II, known to his countrymen as the "the Conqueror" and to much of Europe as "the Terror of the World," was once Europe's most feared and powerful ruler.

Author Biography

John Freely was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926. He earned his Ph.D. from New York University and completed his postdoctoral studies at Oxford, and is currently a professor at Bosphorus University in Istanbul. He has written more than forty books, many of them about Turkey, including Istanbul: The Imperial City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Turkish Spelling and Pronunciation	p. xi
List of Maps and Illustrations	p. xiii
Prologue: Portrait of a Sultan	p. xv
The Sons of Osman	p. 1
The Boy Sultan	p. 15
The Conquest of Constantinople	p. 29
Istanbul, Capital of the Ottoman Empire	p. 45
Europe in Terror	p. 57
War with Venice	p. 71
The House of Felicity	p. 81
A Renaissance Court in Istanbul	p. 95
The Conquest of Negroponte	p. 109
Victory over the White Sheep	p. 121
Conquest of the Crimea and Albania	p. 133
The Siege of Rhodes	p. 147
The Capture of Otranto	p. 163
Death of the Conqueror	p. 171
The Sons of the Conqueror	p. 187
The Tide of Conquest Turns	p. 199
The Conqueror's City	p. 213
Notes	p. 227
Glossary	p. 241
The Ottoman Dynasty	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 245
Index	p. 253
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