Sultan Mehmed facts
While investigating facts about Sultan Mehmed Ii and Sultan Mehmed 2, I found out little known, but curios details like:
In 1676, Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV demanded a surrender of Zaporozhian Cossacks. Their reply is considered one of the rudest diplomatic correspondences in history, which included niceties such as "F*ck your mother" and "Goat f*cker"
how sultan mehmed died?
Mehmed the Conqueror requested his father, who had abdicated earlier, to come back and claim the throne in time of trouble by saying: "If you are the Sultan, come and lead your armies. If I am the Sultan I hereby order you to come and lead my armies."
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 14 of the best facts about Sultan Mehmed V and Sultan Mehmed Iii I managed to collect.
what happened to sultan mehmed ii?
-
Ottoman sultan Mehmed II. was 21 when he conquered Constantinople, was reputed fluent in several languages, including Turkish, Serbian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Greek and Latin and had an affair with the younger brother of Vlad Drăculea, the literary model for the Bram Stoker's Dracula
-
When Sultan Mehmed II ordered the Cathedral to be turned into a mosque, many Christian mosaics were plastered over.
-
Turkish Sultan Mehmed disemboweled his gardeners one by one to find out who stole and ate one of his prized cucumbers
-
Sultan Mehmed IV ordered the Zaporozhian Cossacks to stand down. Cossacks replied in a letter with "fuck your mother", and other vulgar phrases.
-
During the Ottoman-Venetian War, the widow of the previous sultan and her sister, both Serbian princesses who were neither Ottoman nor Venetian, served as intermediaries between Sultan Mehmed II and the Venetian Doge
-
The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Bayezid II (Son of Mehmed the Conqueror) dispatched the Ottoman Navy to take in thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing the Spanish Inquisition.
-
Sultan Mehmed III had 19 of his brothers and half-brothers strangled to death by deaf mutes to secure his power
-
Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI rejected an offer by Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II to spare his life in exchange for the surrender of Constantinople. Constantine later got killed on the day that Constantinople tell to the Ottoman Turks.
-
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV painting is quite large - 6'7 x 11'9 - and it took Ilya Repin 11 (eleven !) years to complete it
What is true about sultan mehmed?
You can easily fact check it by examining the linked well-known sources.
The Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror transported his ships overland to further stretch Byzantine troops in the Siege of Constantinople.
In 1452 Transylvanian engineer Orban offered to build canons for emperor Constantine XI to defend Constantinople. He declined saying it cost too much. Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II took up the offer using the canons to bombard the city the following year, bringing an end to the 1000 year Byzantine Empire - source
