Let those who love me follow me.
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Mehmed II
7th Ottoman sultan (1432-1481). At 21 he conquered Constantinople, ending the thousand-year Byzantine Empire as Fatih ("the Conqueror"). He built Topkapı Palace, codified Ottoman law, but legalised royal fratricide.
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Source: Tursun Bey『征服の父 メフメト二世記』(濱田正美訳、法政大学出版局、2022年)Verified
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