In 1456, only three years after Constantinople fell, Sultan Mehmed II brought his army against Belgrade, the fortress ...

Mehmed II was a visionary ruler who united Islamic, Roman and Renaissance traditions to transform the Ottoman Empire and ...

Mehmed, who was just 21 when he conquered Istanbul, put the Ottoman Empire on the path of great transformation. Sultan Mehmed II was just 21 years old when he defeated the Byzantine Empire, ...

One of three oil paint portraits depicting Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, known as Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, will be auctioned on July 8 by Sotheby’s London. Made by famous Venetian painter Gentile ...

LONDON: To the Christians of Europe in the mid-15th century, the Islamic leader Mehmed II was “the terror of the world,” a “venomous dragon” at the head of ...

Discovered by Turkish researchers, a centuries-old epic poem written to honor Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, commonly knowns as Mehmed the Conqueror, has been published in Turkish and English for the first ...

This video examines the clash between Stephen the Great of Moldavia and Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui in 1475. It explores how Stephen’s clever use of terrain, weather ...

Italian master Bellini's portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, better known as Mehmed the Conqueror, is now on exhibit at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. The famed portrait of the sultan was ...

A bronze medal featuring a portrait thought to be dating back to the princehood era of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II will go up for auction in London, Bonhams Auction House in England has announced. The ...