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Mehmet II, the Conqueror, also called Mohammed 1432-81
Sultan of Turkey and founder of the Ottoman Empire
Born in Adrianople (Edirne), he succeeded his father, Murad II, in 1451, and took Constantinople (1453), rebuilding it into a prosperous Ottoman capital, popularly known as Istanbul, and thus extinguishing the Byzantine Empire and giving the Turks their commanding position on the Bosphorus. Checked by János Hunyadi at Belgrade (1456), he nevertheless annexed most of Serbia, all of Greece, and most of the Aegean Islands, threatened Venetian territory, was repelled from Rhodes by the Knights of St John (1479), took Otranto (1480) and died in a campaign against Persia (Iran).
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