Mehmed II in Podcasts
personSultan Mehmed II, also known as Mehmed the Conqueror, was an Ottoman sultan famous for conquering Constantinople in 1453.
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The Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II, a man who was only 21 years old at the time and clearly overachieving, laid siege to Constantinople with an army estimated at between 80 and 100,000 soldiers, a fleet of ships and, perhaps most crucially, some of the largest cannons ever constructed up to that point in history.
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So in 1462, Sultan Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople, demanded tribute from Wallachia, including 500 boys for the Janissary Corps.