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Mehmed has left a scrap-book of pen and ink drawings which include these profile and three-quarter face portrait busts.

Mehmed II or Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror (March 30, 1432 – May 3, 1481) ( ', ), (also known as ' (, "the Conqueror" in Ottoman Turkish, in modern Turkish, Fatih Sultan Mehmet; also called Mahomet II in early modern Europe) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Rûm until the conquest) for a short time from 1444 to September 1446, and later from February 1451 to 1481. At the age of 21, he conquered Constantinople and brought an end to the Byzantine Empire, absorbing its administrative apparatus into the Ottoman state. Mehmed continued his conquests in Asia, with the Anatolian reunification, and in Europe, as far as Bosnia and Croatia. Mehmed II is regarded as a national hero in Turkey, and his name has been given to Istanbul's Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge.

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Contemporary portraits Contemporary portraits nauplion.net/M2-MEHMED-ElFatih-1.html - Web

Chapter LXVIII: Reign Of Mahomet The Second, Extin... Chapter LXVIII: Reign Of Mahomet The Second, Extinction Of Eastern Empire www.ccel.org/ccel/gibbon/decline/files/volume2/chap68.htm - Web

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