After more than a month of fighting, Mehmed ’ s advisors were beginning to lose hope.

Mehmed the Conqueror, the Ottoman sultan living in the 15th century, European sources say “ who was known to have ambivalent sexual tastes, sent a eunuch to the house of Notaras, demanding that he supply his good looking fourteen year old son for the Sultan ’ s pleasure.

Another youth Mehmed found attractive, and who was presumably more accommodating, was Radu III the Fair, the brother of the famous Vlad the Impaler, “ Radu, a hostage in Istanbul whose good looks had caught the Sultan ’ s fancy, and who was thus singled out to serve as one of his most favored pages .” After the defeat of Vlad, Mehmed placed Radu on the throne of Wallachia as a vassal ruler.

At first in a high position in the gendarmerie, he was soon transferred to Mehmed Ali Pasha ’ s staff, and thence took over the command of a division of infantry.

This became the seat of government of Bayezid ’ s youngest son, Mehmed I, and was to remain a residence of princely governors until the 16th century.

The mosque was named “ Carova Džamija ” ( the Tsar ’ s Mosque ) in honor of the Sultan Mehmed II.

The mosque was named " Carova Džamija " ( the Tsar ’ s Mosque ; the Imperial Mosque ) in honor of the Sultan Mehmed II.

Münir Ertegün | Mehmed Münir Ertegün, Turkey ’ s ambassador to the United States during the 1930s and early 1940s.

When reports surfaced in the Hollywood press about the film late in 1934, Turkey ’ s ambassador to the United States, Mehmed Münir Ertegün, was ordered by his government to prevent it from being made.

Ahmed III ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثالث Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > āli < u > s </ u >) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 30 / 31, 1673 – July 1, 1736 )</ span > was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 87 ).

Mehmed III Adli ( Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثالث Meḥmed-i < u > s </ u > āli < u > s </ u >, Turkish: III. Mehmet ; < span dir =" ltr "> May 26, 1566 – December 21 / 22, 1603 )</ span > was sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death.

The resulting asymmetry is the result of this erratic growth and change over time, although the main layout by Mehmed II was preserved.

Mehmed had to fall back and once again laid siege to Temišvar on 14 October with the main part of his army and 50 cannons.

Mehmed went ahead, preparing for the arrival of the Sultan, who was leading the main part of the Ottoman forces.

File: Mehmet I honoraries miniature. jpg | Mehmed I with his dignitaries.

Mehmed founded in the vicinity of his own mosque and mausoleum two other characteristic institutions, one a school, and one a refectory for the poor both of which he endowed with royal munificence.

After taking Constantinople, Mehmed met with the Orthodox patriarch, Gennadios and worked out an arrangement in which the Orthodox Church, in exchange for being able to maintain its autonomy and land, accepted Ottoman authority.

The Turks stayed in Otranto and its surrounding areas for nearly a year, but after Mehmed II's death on 3 May 1481, plans for penetrating deeper into the Italian peninsula with fresh new reinforcements were given up on and cancelled and the remaining Ottoman troops sailed back to the east of the Adriatic Sea.

A highly ambitious plan to counter this conceived by Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Grand Vizier under Selim II, in the shape of a Don-Volga canal ( begun June 1569 ), combined with an attack on Astrakhan, failed, the canal being abandoned with the onset of winter.

His Grand Vizier, Mehmed Sokollu, a Serbian devsirme from what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, controlled much of state affairs, and two years after Selim's accession succeeded in concluding at Constantinople an honourable treaty ( 17 February 1568 ) with the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian II, whereby the Emperor agreed to pay an annual " present " of 30, 000 ducats and essentially granted the Ottomans authority in Moldavia and Walachia.

A period of interregnum begins in the Ottoman Empire with the future Mehmed I as one of the leading claimants to the throne.

* August – After making peace with Karamanids, Murad II abdicated in favor of his son Mehmed II.

Manuel II stood on friendly terms with the victor in the Ottoman civil war, Mehmed I ( 1402 – 1421 ), but his attempts to meddle in the next contested succession led to a new assault on Constantinople by Murad II ( 1421 – 1451 ) in 1422.

After the Fourth Crusade in 1204, a Byzantine successor state was founded there with support of Queen Tamar of Georgia, the Empire of Trebizond, which ruled part of the Black Sea coast from Trebizond until 1461, when its ruler, David, surrendered to Mehmed II, ruler of the Ottoman Empire.

Because of this, Mehmed considered Constantine to have broken the truce and the following winter of 1451 – 52, Mehmed built Rumelihisari, a hill fortress on the European side of the Bosporus, just north of the city cutting the communication with the Black Sea to the east.

On 1 June 1453, just three days after the fall of the city, the new Patriarch's procession passed through the streets where Mehmed received Gennadius graciously and himself invested him with the signs of his office – the crosier ( dikanikion ) and mantle.

From this point of view he stands at the head of a new period in the history of his Church ; the principles that regulated the condition of Orthodox Christians in the Turkish Empire are the result of Mehmed II's arrangement with him.

After he had made peace with the Karaman Emirate in Anatolia in August 1444, he resigned the throne to his twelve year-old son Mehmed II.

With the Conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the road was open for the Ottoman state to become an empire, with Sultan Mehmed II taking the title of Pâdişah ( پادشاه ), a Persian title meaning " Master of Kings " and ranking as " Emperor ", claiming superiority among the other kings.

Again his brother, Mehmed I, who ended the Ottoman Interregnum, also held his post with a fief from Tamerlane ; he took the title Sovereign of the House of Osman, Khan of Khans, Grand Sultan of Anatolia and Rumelia, and of the Cities of Adrianople and Philipopolis.

During the stalemate in Anatolia, which lasted from 1405-1410, Mehmed sent Musa across the Black Sea to Thrace with a small force to attack Suleyman's territories in south-eastern Europe.

Another fortress, Rumelihisarı, was built between 1451 and 1452 by Sultan Mehmed II opposite of Anadoluhisarı on the European side in order to obtain absolute control over the sea traffic of the Bosporus Strait, which was especially vital for the Genoese in Galata, who were allied with the Byzantines and had colonies in the Black Sea such as Caffa, Sinop and Amasra.

Sultan Mehmed II reinforced the fortress with a 2 m thick wall around it, which had three watchtowers.

Seeing the imminent defeat of his forces, Mehmed charged with his personal guard against the Moldavians, managing to rally the Janissaries, and turning the tide of the battle.

In 1453, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, having failed in his attempt to break the chain with brute force, instead used the same tactic as the Rus ', towing his ships across Galata over greased logs and into the estuary.

* 1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople ( Istanbul ), which falls on May 29.

On 29 May 1453, Turkish sultan Mehmed II " the Conqueror " entered Constantinople after a 53 – day siege during which his cannon had torn a huge hole in the Walls of Theodosius II.

When Mehmed finally entered Constantinople through what is now known as the Topkapi Gate, he immediately rode his horse to the Hagia Sophia which he ordered to be sacked.

Mehmed issued orders across his empire that Muslims, Christians, and Jews should resettle the city ; he demanded that five thousand households needed to be deported to Constantinople by September.

* 1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.

With the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II in 1453, the Ottoman state became an empire.

The son of Murad II, Mehmed the Conqueror, reorganized the state and the military, and demonstrated his martial prowess by capturing Constantinople on 29 May 1453, at the age of 21.

Mehmed II Fall of Constantinople | conquered Constantinople in 1453 and brought an end to the Byzantine Empire.

The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II cemented the status of the Empire as the preeminent power in southeastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean.

Upon making Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul ) the new capital of the Ottoman Empire in 1453, Mehmed II assumed the title of Kayser-i Rûm ( literally Caesar Romanus, i. e. Roman Emperor.

The Ottoman Empire came into its own when Mehmed II captured the Byzantine Empire's capital, Constantinople ( Istanbul ), in 1453.

Modern painting of Mehmed II marching on Fall of Constantinople | Constantinople in 1453

* Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Conqueror of Constantinople ( 1432 – 1481 ).

* Mehmed II Ottoman Sultan, born at Edirne in Thrace ; he was the Sultan who conquered Constantinople, marking the end of the Middle Ages.

* January 10 – Battle of Vaslui: Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire, which was led at that time by Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople.

In 1453, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II, who subsequently ordered the building converted into a mosque.

The Turkish Grand National Assembly abolished the Sultanate on 1 November 1922, and Mehmed was expelled from Constantinople, aboard the British warship Malaya on 17 November.

Soon afterwards, Mehmed II began agitating for the conquest of Constantinople.