Skanderbeg
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Gjergj Kastrioti was an Albanian nobleman and military leader who led the League of Lezhë in the Ottoman-Albanian Wars until his death. Skanderbeg is considered to be a major figure of medieval Albani
Skanderbeg dueling a Tatar at the Ottoman court, some time before 1439
A woodcut of the battle of Varna in 1444
Woodcut depicting an engagement between Albanian and Ottoman forces
Skanderbeg addressing the people, 16th-century engraving by Jost Amman
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 then later from February 1451 to May 1481.
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)