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"Mehmet II 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.'"--BOOK JACKET.
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The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II - conqueror of Constantinople, master of an empire and lord of two seas
2009, I.B. Tauris
in English
1845117042 9781845117047
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-251) and index.
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