24x16cm, xvii,265,(8)pp ontents: Prologue: Portrait of a Sultan -- 1. Sons of Osman -- 2. Boy Sultan -- 3. Conquest of Constantinople -- 4. Istanbul, Capital of the Ottoman Empire -- 5. Europe in Terror -- 6. War with Venice -- 7. House of Felicity -- 8. Renaissance Court in Istanbul -- 9. Conquest of Negroponte -- 10. Victory over the White Sheep -- 11. Conquest of the Crimea and Albania -- 12. Siege of Rhodes -- 13. Capture of Otranto -- 14. Death of the Conqueror -- 15. Sons of the Conqueror -- 16. Tide of Conquest Turns --17. Conqueror s City -- Ottoman Dynasty.

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Titel

The Grand Turk : Sultan Mehmet II - Conqueror of Constantinople, Master of an Empire and Lord of Two Seas

Verlag

I.B. Tauris, London / New York

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

ISBN-10

1845117042

ISBN-13

9781845117047

Einband

orig. boards

Illustrator

8pp photoplates.

Zustand

Minor wear. VG., dustwrapper.

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Sultan Mehmet II, the Grand Turk, known to his countrymen as Fatih, 'the Conqueror', and to much of Europe as 'the present Terror of the World', was once the most feared and powerful ruler in the world. The seventh of his line to rule the Ottoman Turks, Mehmet was barely 21 when he conquered Byzantine Constantinople, which became Istanbul and the capital of his mighty empire. Mehmet reigned for 30 years, during which time his armies extended the borders of his empire halfway across Asia Minor and as far into Europe as Hungary and Italy. Three popes called for crusades against him as Christian Europe came face to face with a new Muslim empire.Mehmet himself was an enigmatic figure. Revered by the Turks and seen as a cruel and brutal tyrant by the west, he was a brilliant military leader but also a renaissance prince who had in his court Persian and Turkish poets, Arab and Greek astronomers and Italian scholars and artists. In this, the first biography of Mehmet for 30 years, John Freely vividly brings to life the world in which Mehmet lived and illuminates the man behind the myths, a figure who dominated both East and West from his palace above the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus, where an inscription still hails him as, 'Sultan of the two seas, shadow of God in the two worlds, God's servant between the two horizons, hero of the water and the land, conqueror of the stronghold of Constantinople."

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John Freely was born in New York and joined the US Navy at the age of seventeen, serving with a commando unit in Burma and China during the last years of World War II. He has lived in New York, Boston, London, Athens and Istanbul and has written over forty travel books and guides, most of them about Greece and Turkey. He is author of 'The Cyclades', 'The Ionian Islands', 'Crete', 'The Western Shores of Turkey', 'Strolling Through Athens', 'Strolling Through Venice' as well as 'Inside the Seraglio', 'Jem Sultan' and the bestselling 'Strolling Through Istanbul'.

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