Rumelihisarı
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Rumelihisarı or Boğazkesen Fortress is a medieval Ottoman fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey, on a series of hills on the European banks of the Bosphorus. The fortress also lends its name to the imm
Rumelihisarı as seen from Bosphorus strait
Rumelihisarı as seen from the Bosphorus
General view from Rumelihisarı, with the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in the background
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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.
Rumelihisarı
…its name to the immediate neighborhood around it in the city's Sarıyer district. Conceived and built between 1451 and 1452 CE on the orders of Sultan Mehmed II, the complex was commissioned in preparation for a planned Ottoman siege on the then-Byzantine city of Constantinople, with the goal of cutting off…
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)