History of Mehmed the Conqueror
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History of Mehmed the Conqueror

Kritovoulos, Charles T. Riggs

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Kritovoulos, Charles T. Riggs

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Five hundred years ago the great walled city of Constantinople fell under the relentless siege of the Ottoman Turks led by Sultan Mehmed II, Mehmed the Conqueror. Kristovoulos, one of the vanquished Greeks, later entered into the service of the Conqueror and began to write a history of the Sultan's life, starting with the year 1451, the beginning of Mehmed's 31-year reign. Death apparently prevented Kritovoulos from completing his account, but the manuscript covering the first seventeen years has been preserved and this exciting chronicle is here translated into English for the first time.
Charles T. Riggs, who died in February 1953 at Robert College in modern Istanbul, was a missionary in the Near East. Originally published in 1954.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780691198187
Topic
History
Subtopic
Middle Eastern History
Index
History
P
A
R
T
I
:
A
.
D
.
1
4
5
1
-
1
4
5
3
§ 
304. 
For 
from 
the 
time 
he 
took 
charge 
of 
the 
affairs 
of 
the 
great 
Sultan, 
he 
gave 
everything 
in 
this 
great 
dominion 
a 
better 
prospect 
by 
his 
wonderful 
zeal 
and 
his 
fine 
planning 
as 
well 
as 
by 
his 
implicit 
and 
unqualified 
faith 
in 
and 
good-
will 
towards 
his 
sovereign. 
He 
was 
thus 
a 
man 
of 
better 
character 
than 
them 
all, 
as 
shown 
by 
his 
accomplishments. 
§ 
305. 
When 
the 
Sultan 
had 
done 
these 
things 
in 
Adri-
anople, 
he 
went 
back 
in 
the 
autumn 
to 
Byzantium, 
so 
the 
year 
6961 
counting 
from 
the 
beginning 
went 
by, 
which 
was 
the 
third 
of 
the 
Sultan's 
reign 
[
A.D
. 
1453]. 
PART 
II 
S
U
M
M
A
R
Y
This 
includes 
the 
history 
of 
the 
expedition 
into 
Enos, 
the 
fight 
with 
the 
Triballi 
and 
their 
total 
defeat 
and 
enslavement, 
and 
the 
capture 
of 
the 
is-
lands 
of 
Lemnos, 
Thasos, 
and 
Samothrace 
by 
the 
Italians. 
Time 
involved: 
four 
years 
[
A.D
. 
1454-
1457]. 

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