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John Freely 
Grand Turk 
Sultan Mehmet II-Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire

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The historian and author of Strolling Through Istanbul presents a detailed portrait of the fifteenth century Ottoman sultan, revealing the man behind the myths.Sultan Mehmet II-known to his countrymen as The Conqueror, and to much of Europe as The Terror of the World-was once Europe’s most feared and powerful ruler. Now John Freely, the noted scholar of Turkish history, brings this charismatic hero to life in evocative and authoritative biography. Mehmet was barely twenty-one when he conquered Byzantine Constantinople, which became Istanbul and the capital of his mighty empire. He reigned for thirty 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. Revered by the Turks and seen as a brutal tyrant by the West, Mehmet was a brilliant military leader as well as a renaissance prince. His court housed Persian and Turkish poets, Arab and Greek astronomers, and Italian scholars and artists. In The Grand Turk, Freely sheds vital new light on this enigmatic ruler.
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● ISBN 9781590204498 ● Editorial ABRAMS ● Publicado 2009 ● Descargable 3 veces ● Divisa EUR ● ID 6976076 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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