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  Index

  Abdül Hamit II, sultan

  Abdül Mecit I, sultan

  Abdül Mecit II, caliph

  Abdullah, son of Beyazit II

  Acton, Lord xvi

  Ahmet, son of Murat II

  Ahmet Izzet Pasha

  Akşemsettin

  Alaeddin Ali, son of Murat II

  Alanya

  Albania, Albanians

  Alexander VI, pope

  Alfonso II, king

  Alfonso, king

  Ali Kuşci, astronomer

  Amasra

  Amasya

  Amiroutzes, George

  Andrea Palaeologus

  Andronicus II Palaeologus, emperor

  Andronicus III Palaeologus, emperor

  Angiolello, Giovanni-Maria

  Ankara

  Ankara, battle of

  Anne de Beaujeu, sister of Charles VIII

  Antalya

  Antonello, Sicilian soldier

  Argos

  Armenians

  Aşıkpaşazade, Turkish historian

  Astinoğlu Yakup Bey

  Athens

  Atik Sinan, Mehmet II’s architect

  Austria

  Ayas Pasha

  Aydınıd beylik

  Babinger, Franz xvi

  Baghdad

  Balaban Bey

  Barbarigo, Paolo

  Barbaro, Niccolo

  Bandumier, Giovanni

  Bandini, Bernardo

  Belgrade

  Bellini, Gentile xv

  Bellini, Giovanni

  Berlin, treaty of

  Bertoldo di Giovanni, Florentine artist

  Bessarion, cardinal

  Beyazit I, sultan

  Beyazit II, sultan

  Bodrum (Halicarnassus)

  Borgia, Cesare

  Borgia, Juan

  Borgia, Lucrezia

  Bosnia

  Bourgeneuf

  Bucharest, treaty of

  Buda

  Bulgaria

  Buondelmonti, Cristoforo, cartographer

  Burgundy

  Bursa (Prusa)

  Byzantine Empire

  in 1071

  in Fourth Crusade

  Latin occupation (1204-61)

  after Latin occupation

  in fourteenth century

  in first half of fifteenth century

  Cairo

  Calbo, Alviso

  Çaldıran, battle of

  Calixtus III, pope

  Calixtus Ottomanus (Beyazit Osman) Ottoman pretender

  Campofregosa, cardinal Paolo de

  Canale, Niccolo da

  Caoursin, Guillaume

  Capello, Francesco

  Capello, Giovanni

  Capello, Vettore

  Capistrano, Fra Giovanni da

  Carafa, cardinal

  Casimir IV, king

  Cemal, Young Turk leader

  Cephalonia

  Cesarini, cardinal

  Charles V, emperor

  Charles VI, king

  Charles VIII, king

  Chios

  Circassia

  Claudius Ptolemaios (Ptolemy)

  Clement XIV, pope

  Cocco, Niccolo

  Coco, Giacomo

  Comtino, Mordechai ben Eliezer

  Constantine I, the Great, emperor

  Constantine XI Dragases, emperor

  Contarini, Bartolomeo

  Corfu

  Corinth

  Costanzo da Ferrara, painter

  Crete

  Crimea

  Croatia

  Cüneyd, emir

  Curti, Fra de

  Cyprus

  Cyriacus of Ancona

  Dalmata, John

  Dalmatia

  Dario, Giovanni

  Daud Pasha

  David Comnenus, emperor of Trebizond

  Daye Hatun, wet-nurse of Mehmet II

  Dayı Karaca Pasha

  Demetrius Palaeologus, despot

  devşirme

  Diedo, Alviso

  Dokeianos, John, Byzantine scholar

  Domenico Hierosolimitano, Murat III’s physician

  Don Federico, brother of King Alfonso

  Don Francesco de Toledo

  Doukas, Greek historian

  Dragut Pasha

  Duke of Orleans

  Durres

  Eba Eyüp Ensari

  Edirne (Adrianople) xvi

  Edirne Sarayı

  Edward IV, king

  Egypt, Egyptians

  England (Great Britain), English

  Enver Pasha

  Enveri, Turkish poet and historian

  Ercole I d’Este, duke

  Erivan

  Erizzo, Paolo

  Ertuğrul, Osmanlı chieftain

  Euboea

  Eugenius II, pope

  Eugenius IV, pope

  Evliya Çelebi

  Fabrizio Colonna

  Fabrizio Del Carretto

  Farnese, Giulia

  Federico d’Aragona, king

  Fenerlioğlu Hasan Çelebi

  Ferdinand, king

  Ferhat Pasha

  Ferrante, king

  Ferrantino, king

  Fevzi Pasha

  Florence

  Foscari, Francesco, Venetian doge

  France, French

  Francis I, king

  Frederick III, emperor

  Friuli

  Galata

  Gascoigne, George

  Gattilusio, Dorino

  Gattilusio, Dorino II

  Gattilusio, Niccolo

  Gedik Ahmet Pasha

  Gelibolu (Gallipoli)

  Gennadios (George Scholarios), Greek patriarch

  Genoa, Genoese

  George Branković, despot

  George of Mühlenbach, brother

  Georgia

  Germany, Germans

  Germiyanid beylik

  Giacomo de’ Languschi

  Giovio, Paolo

  Giustinian, Orsato

  Giustiniani-Longo, Giovanni

  Gonzaga, cardinal Francesco

  Grant, Johannes

  Greece, Greeks

  Gregory III Mammas, Greek patriarch

  Grimani, Antonio, Venetian doge

  Gritti, Andrea

  Gualtier, Fra Antoine

  Gülbahar, mother of Beyazit II

  Guy de Blanchefort

  Hadım (the Eunuch) Süleyman Pasha

  Halil Çandarlı Pasha

  Halima Hatun, wife of Murat II

  Hamiduddin al-Lari, Mehmet II’s physician

  Hamza Bey

  Hannibal

  Hass Murat Pasha

  Havakim, Armenian patriarch

  Hayrettin Bey

  Helena Dragas, empress

  Henry IV, king

  Hercegovina

  Hersekzade Ahmet Pasha

  Hızıroğlu Mehmet Pasha

  Hoca Sadeddin, Turkish historian

  Hoca Sinan Pasha

  Hüma Hatun, mother of Mehmet II

  Hungary, Hungarians

>   Ibrahim, Karamanid emir

  Ibrahim Pasha

  Ibrahim Pasha, son of Mehmet Ali

  Ilyas Efendi

  Imbros

  Inalcık, Halil

  Innocent II, pope

  Innocent VIII, pope

  Inönü, Ismet

  Ionian Islands

  Iraq

  Isa, son of Beyazit I

  Ishak, Karamanid emir

  Ishak Pasha

  Isidore of Kiev, cardinal

  Ismail, Shah of Iran

  Istanbul (Byzantium, Constantinople) Byzantium

  founding of Constantinople (330)

  Latin sack (1204)

  Turkish siege (1354)

  Turkish siege (1394-1402)

  Turkish siege (1422)

  topography

  Turkish siege (1453)

  Turkish conquest (1453)

  becomes Ottoman capital

  repopulation by Mehmet II

  millet system introduced

  rebuilding by Mehmet II

  Mehmet II builds Topkapı Sarayı

  rebuilding and redecoration of Topkapı Sarayı by later sultans

  Allied occupation of Istanbul (1919-23)

  last sultan leaves Istanbul

  Ankara replaces Istanbul as capital

  last caliph leaves Istanbul

  census of 1477

  population in Süleyman’s reign

  population increase since 1924

  Bosphorus bridges

  monuments from reign of Mehmet II

  later imperial mosques

  buildings of Mehmet II in Topkapı Sarayı

  Istanbul monuments: Ahmet I Camii

  Anadolu Hisarı

  Beyazit I Camii (the Beyazidiye)

  Çinili Köşk

  Eski Saray

  Eyüp shrine

  Fatih Camii

  Gedik Pasha Hamamı

  Golden Gate

  Haghia Sophia

  Ishak Pasha mosque and hamam

  Kapalı Çarşı

  Kazancılar Camii

  Kumrulu Mescit

  Mahmut Pasha mosque complex

  Mihrimah Camii

  Murat Pasha Camii

  Nuruosmaniye Camii

  Rum Mehmet Pasha Camii

  Rumeli Hisarı

  Sağrıcılar Camii

  Samanveren Camii

  Selim I Camii

  Süleyman I Camii (the Süleymaniye)

  Tersane

  Timurtaş Camii

  Tophane

  Topkapı Sarayı

  Yarhisar Camii

  Yavaşça Şahin Camii

  Yedikule

  Italy

  Ithaka (Ithaki)

  Izmir (Smyrna)

  Izmit (Nicomedia)

  Iznik (Nicaea)

  janissaries

  Jem Sultan, son of Mehmet II

  Jervis, Robert

  Jews

  John IV Comnenus, emperor of Trebizond

  John V Palaeologus, emperor

  John VI Cantacuzenus, emperor

  John VIII Palaeologus, emperor

  John Castrioti

  John Hunyadi, prince

  Joseph II, Greek patriarch

  Julius II, pope

  Justinian I, emperor

  Kaffa (Feodosiya)

  Kaitbey, Mamluk sultan

  Kapsali, Moses, chief rabbi

  Kara Mustafa Pasha

  Karamanı Mehmet Pasha

  Karamanid beylik

  Karaşemsettin

  Karası beylik

  Karıştıran Süleyman Bey

  Karıştıranlı Süleyman Bey

  Karlowitz, treaty of

  Kasım Bey, Karamanid emir

  Kasım Bey, envoy of Beyazit II

  Kasım Pasha

  Kastamonu

  Kemalpaşazade, Turkish historian

  Kendal, John

  Knights of St John

  Knolles, Richard

  Konya

  Korkut, son of Beyazit II

  Koroni

  Kos

  Kosovo, first battle of (1389) second battle of (1448)

  Kritoboulos of Imbros, biographer of Mehmet II

  Kruje

  Küçük Ahmet, son of Murat II

  Küçük Kaynarca, treaty of

  Ladislas I, king

  Ladislas II, king

  Ladislas Posthumus, king

  Laiot, Basaraba, voyvoda

  Landucci, Luca

  Lausanne, treaty of

  Layard, Augustin

  Lazar Branković, despot

  Lebanon

  Lemnos

  Leo X, pope

  Leonard of Chios, archbishop

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lepanto (Naupactos)

  battle of

  Lesbos

  Lewis II, king

  Lezhe (Alessio)

  Lodovico II Gonzaga, marquis

  Lomellino, Angelo

  London, treaty of (1827)

  (1913)

  Longo, Alviso

  Loredan, Alvise

  Loredan, Giacomo

  Loredan, Jacopo

  Loredano, Antonio

  Lorenzo de’Medici

  Louis XI, king

  Lumley, Marmaduke

  Lungo, Geronimo

  Lutfi Bey

  Macedonia

  Maestro Iacopo, Mehmet II’s physician

  Magni, Cornelio

  Magno, Stefano

  Mahmut II, sultan

  Mahmut Pasha

  Malatesta, Sigismondo Pandolpho

  Malipiero, Domenico

  Malkoçoğlu Bali Bey