Mesih Pasha
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Mesih Pasha or Misac Pasha was an Ottoman statesman of Byzantine Greek origin, being a nephew of the last Roman emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos. He served as Kapudan Pasha of the Ottoman Navy and
Mesih Pasha in a miniature depicting the Siege of Rhodes
Tombstone of Mesih Pasha located in the Murat Paşa Mosque cemetery in Aksaray Istanbul
Mehmed II
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Mehmed II, commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire twice, from August 1444 to September 1446 and again from February 1451 to May 1481.
Mesih Pasha
…to have been Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emperor, who was killed in 1453 during the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror or Sultan Mehmed Fatih. If true, since Constantine XI died childless, and had the Ottomans failed to conquer…
Portrait of Mehmet II by Gentile Bellini, dating 1480
Accession of Mehmed II in Edirne, 1451
Rumelihisarı, built by Sultan Mehmed II between 1451 and 1452, before the Fall of Constantinople
The entry of Sultan Mehmed II into Constantinople, painting by Fausto Zonaro (1854–1929)