Mehmet the Conqueror, 1451–1481

Mehmet the Conqueror, 1451–1481

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S1 E6: Mehmet the Conqueror made the Ottoman sultanate a leading Muslim power by 1481. Investigate his remarkable rule, which included the conquest of Constantinople, the remodeling of the Hagia Sophia as a mosque, and the construction of the grand, walled mini-city of Topkapı.