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Also Known As Mehmed the Conqueror • Mehmed Fatih • Muhammad the Conqueror
Born March 30, 1432 • Edirne • Turkey
Died May 3, 1481 (aged 49) • near Istanbul • Turkey
Title / Office sultan (1451-1481), Ottoman Empire • sultan (1444-1446), Ottoman Empire
Role In Fall of Constantinople • Siege of Constantinople

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Stone walls and round towers of Rumelihisari Fort rise above dense green trees along the Bosporus in Istanbul, Turkey, with cars and water in the foreground.
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