The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II - Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire (44 page)

his discussions on religion with Gennadios

his interest in Christianity

his love for his mother

his mourning for his son Mustafa

Mehmet as a Renaissance prince

his interest in philosophy

his study of geography

his study of astronomy

his patronage of the astronomer Ali Kuşci

his interest in ancient history

his patronage of scholars and poets

his poetry

his patronage of artists

his patronage of historians

his patronage of architects

Western opinions of Mehmet as a cruel barbarian tyrant ,

Turkish reverence of Mehmet as a sainted warrior for the faith

Mehmet IV, sultan

Mehmet V Reşat, sultan

Mehmet VI Vahidettin, sultan

Mehmet Ali, ruler of Egypt

Mehmet Husrev Pasha

Melissourgos, Greek historian

Menavino, Giovanni

Mengli Giray, Crimean khan

Mesih Pasha

Methoni

Mezid Bey

Michael VIII Palaeologus, emperor

Mihailović, Constantine

Mihri Hatun, Turkish poetess

Milan

millets

Minotto, Girolamo

Mistra

Mocenigo, Giovanni, Venetian doge

Mocenigo, Pietro

Mohacs, battle of

Moldavia

Molla Ahmet Gurani, Mehmet II’s teacher

Montenegro

Moro, Cristoforo, Venetian doge

Muali, Turkish poet

Mudanya armistice

Mudros armistice

Murad Bey

Murat I, sultan

Murat II, sultan

Murat III, sultan

Murat IV, sultan

Murphey, Rhoads

Musa, son of Beyazit I

Mustafa III, sultan

Mustafa, son of Mehmet II

Mustafa Ali, Turkish historian

Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk)

Mustafa Pasha

Mustafa Reşit Pasha

Naples

Nasuh Bey

Nauplion (Nauplia)

Nea Phokaia

Negroponte (Chalkis)

Nergiszade, daughter of Prince Mustafa

Nesri, Turkish historian

Nicholas I, tsar

Nicholas V, pope xvii

Nicopolis, battle of

Notaras, Loukas, duke

Ömer Bey

Orhan Gazi, sultan

Orhan, grandson of Beyazit I

Osman II, sultan

Osman III, sultan

Osman Gazi xv

Otranto

Pachymeres, George

Palaeo Phokaia

Palestine

Paris, treaty of

peace conference

Passarowitz, treaty of

Patras

Paul II, pope

Pendinelli, Stefano, archbishop

Persia (Iran)

Pesaro, Lorenzo

Philip the Good, duke

Philip Villiers de L’Isle Adam

Philippe de Commines

Piero de’Medici

Pierre d’Aubusson

Pir Ahmet, Karamanid emir

Piri Pasha

Pius II, pope xv

Pius III, pope

Plethon, George Gemisthus

Poland

Poo, Juan

Portugal, Portuguese

Prussia

Pugiese, Fra Giacomo

Querini, Lazzaro

Raby, Julian

Radu cel Frumos, prince

Ragusa (Dubrovnik)

Rhodes

Romania

Romanus IV Diogenes, emperor I

Rome

Roxelana, wife of Süleyman the Magnificent

Rum Mehmet Pasha

Runciman, Steven

Russia

Sadoleto, Niccolo

Sagundino, Niccolo

Said, Edward

Samothrace

Santa Maura (Lefkas)

Sanudo, Marino

Sara Hatun, mother of Uzun Hasan

Sarajevo

Savelli, cardinal

Schott, Peter

Selim I, sultan

Selim II, sultan

Seljuk Turks

Serbia

Sèvres, treaty of

Shkoder

Sigismondo de’Conti

Sigismund, king

Silifke

Sinan, Ottoman architect

Sinan Bey, Turkish painter

Sinan Pasha

Sinop

Sitti Hatun, wife of Mehmet II

Sixtus IV, pope

Skanderbeg

Skopje

Smederova

Sofia

Söğüt

Sokollu Mehmet Pasha

Soranzo, Vettore

Spain, Spanish

Spandugino, Teodoro

Sphrantzes, George, Greek historian

Stavrides, Theoharis

Stephen VII Tomasević, king

Stephen the Great, count

Stephen Vukčić, duke

Şükrüllah, Turkish historian

Süleyman Baltaoğlu

Süleyman the Magnificent, sultan

Süleyman, son of Orhan Gazi

Süleyman, son of Beyazit I

Syria

Tabriz

Talat Pasha

Tamerlane

Taşköprüzade, Turkish historian

Tenedos

Thasos

Theodosius I, emperor

Theodosius II, emperor

Theophilus Palaeologus

Thessalonica

Thomas Palaeologus, despot

Tocco, Antonio

Tocco, Leonardo III, duke

Torcello, Giovanni

Transylvania

Trapezuntios, George

Trebizond

Trevisan, cardinal Ludovico

Trevisano, Gabriele

Tripoli

Troy

Trvtko, king

Tunis

Turkish Republic

Tursun Beg, Turkish historian

Ughurlu Mehmet, son of Uzun Hasan

Ulu Beg, Timurid khan

Ünver, Süheyl

Urban, military engineer

Uzun Hasan, Akkoyunlu chieftain

Valona (Vlore)

Varna, battle of (1444)

Vendramin, Andrea, Venetian doge

Venice, Venetians

Vienna

Vlachs

Vlad II Dracul, prince

Vlad III Tepeş (the Impaler), prince

Volaterranus, Italian historian

Wallachia

Yashbak, Mamluk emir

Yenişehir

Yunus Bey

Yusuf Mirza

Zaganos Pasha

Zante (Zakynthos)

Zeno, Caterino

Zeynep Hatun, Turkish poetess

Zoë (Sophia), wife of Csar Ivan III

Zorzi, Geronimo

1. Mehmet II, portrait attributed to Sinan Bey, c. 1480

2a. Mehmet II and a youth who may be Prince Jem, portrait attributed to Gentile Bellini

2b. Mehmet II, portrait attributed to Constanza da’Ferrara

3a. Rumelι Hisarι (right) and Anadolu Hisarι (left) on the Bosphorus

3b. The Theodosian walls leading down to the Golden Horn

4a. The original Mosque of the Conqueror dominating the skyline above the Golden Horn

4b. Topkapι Sarayι above the point at the confluence of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn

5. Kapalι Çarşι, the Covered Bazaar