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The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II-Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II-Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire by John Freely
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“According to the Greek historian Laonicus Chalkokondylas, the fall of Constantinople was seen in Rome as revenge for the fall of Troy, and Kritoboulos has Sultan Mehmet taking the same view in his visit to Troy in 1462.”
― John Freely, The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II-Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire
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