WEIRD Things You Did Not Know about the Sultan Mehmed The Conqueror

Sultan Mehmed II, also known as Mehmed the Conqueror, achieved what his predecessors failed in his tenure as sultan, conquering the unconquerable Constantinople. Thereby, toppling the Byzantine Empire all by the time he was merely 21. He then went on to defeat the real-life Dracula, encouraged the development of the arts and sciences, and expanded the Ottoman Empire to new reaches. However, under the surface there are more strange and dark secrets that help in painting the portrait of this celebrated man.

Today on Nutty History, we will be investigating the fascinating life of Sultan Mehmed II.

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[ambreeniram]

He was forward looking. Building library, debates with scholars, publishing books, writing poems, conquering immense territories. Pretty successful monarch.

[Sejara]

For some people who don't know, after 1453, Constantinople wasn't renamed to Istanbul but Konstantiniyye. Until 1930, Istanbul was an unofficial name of Konstantiniyye.

[viannarts]

Mehmed II seemed more open minded than most people today

[ЕммануилАнгелов]

One of the greatest Ottoman sultans ever!

[bakierol]

He was very smart sultan. Speaks 7 languages, very rare even nowadays. Most Open minded person. Intellegent he has built finest and strongest cannons in the world that time. Carried ships from land which played biggest role in war for istanbul

[inaiyer]

Knowledgeable is powerful so are determination and dedication. Mehmet II was destined to be remembered forever as a military strategist and the people's sultan and Sultan of Sultans.

[niqaliaevans]

They might have been onto something, for the era at least, with the fratricide. Look at France and Britain's 100 years war. It literally started with a king divding his kingdom into 3 parts for his 3 sons. Or the War of the Roses, brother was killing brother and there was horrible civil wars that went on for almost half a century until Henry the 7th. I mean in the end the family members still died in Europe but so did many soliders and civilians caught in the cross fires of a really big family feud that had nothing to do with them. So if they had practiced the same in Europe it could have saved hundreds of thousands of other lives and the chaos that comes with civil war.

[ADLFC-mjfp]

Ah yes, the grand city of Constanople

[m.gezginesin]

The best and most underrated ruler of his time.
If he had lived another ten years, Rome would have conquered too.
His son Bayezid was the opposite of him, turning his attention off science and art.
He was the brightest face of the Ottoman Dynasty .

[vidisfury]

Caiser of Rome ( Kayzeri-i Rum ) Emperor of Rome Fatih Sultan Mehmet Khan the Conquere .... 21 years old boy with huge knowledge heart and balls ... he did it 29th of March 1453 ... everyone is free to see from their own perspectives

[ybhealglobal]

"The greatest leader and great army whom had conquered the Constantinople" was the derived from hadis Rasullullah saw 800 years before and truly Mehmet the 2nd and his good armies were eventually mentioned. Let's pray for the good, prosperity and safe in Islam for mankind.

[omerfaruk]

He was official protector of Orthodox christians and he gave the Greek Orthodox Patriarch official protection verdict, which was honored by all the Ottoman dynasty till the end.

He was the first and probably the only Ottoman Sultan who commissioned a European painter, Bellini to have himself painted, as this was considered a sin at that time.

He liked to go out in disguise and chat with his people as a normal man, and this allowed him to have many great encounters and quotes and stories about him.

He was the only Ottoman Sultan who was sued by a Greek architect whose hand he had chopped of for stealing from his mosque construction (yes, he commissioned a non muslim greek architect to build a famous mosque for himself) and the muslim Ottoman judge asked the Sultan to stand up in his presence and found the Sultan guilty and if the architect didn't forgive the Sultan in return for a lifelong pension from Sultan's personal treasury, Sultan's hand had to be chopped off, too.

[Draculavi]

Mehmed when he was 21 :
Conquered Constantinople and fought Dracula

Me at 21 :
Cannot even conquer my lazyness

[rayramos]

just a note: decimate means to reduce by one tenth. This was a punishment that would ruin or destroy a legion so people often use it to mean destroy but that is incorrect.

[renasalicecen]

Taht 2. Mehmet'in elinden rızası olmadan alınmıyor. 2. Mehmet kendi babasına (2.Murat) tekrar tahta geçmesi için emir veriyor. İlk başta babası kabul etmiyor tekrar tahta geçmeyi daha sonra Sultan Mehmet babasına şunu diyor : "Eğer sultansan gel ve tekrar tahta geç, eğer sultan ben isem tekrar tahta geçmeni sana emrediyorum." Bununla birlikte "divan" toplanlatıları yapılıyor ve 2. Murat tekrar padişah oluyor. Ondan sonrasını biliyoruz zaten bi süre sonra 2. Mehmet tekrar tahta geliyor...

[violentomar]

I think you don't really give him justice for the way he conquered Constantinople. No one had sacked the city until he did it. And the way he did it by having his men carry the ships over land and into the harbor to bypass the huge chain protecting the harbor was ingenious.

It was a brutal time in history and he was an imaginative leader.

[chrisjordan]

Love how you use parts from the netflix show this story is so amazing and having the real dracula is something out of this world

[marlamorales]

I came here because I watch Rise of the Empires: Ottomans and my favorite sultan was The Conqueror he made the empire a whole and made it stronger

[tabishah]

being a muslim and a gr8 admirer of alexander and ceasar speaks volumes >>! he build libraries, encouraged all religions to work and live together