In the thirty years after the conquest of Constantinople, Mehmed II continued to conquer the west and west, and he made eighteen imperial conquests.
In the west, Mehmed II conquered Serbia, Albania and other Balkan states, and to the east conquered the countries of Asia Minor and defeated the Aries Dynasty, expanding the eastern Ottoman frontier to the Euphrates River. In 1478, he coerced the Crimean Khanate on the northern shore of the Black Sea into submission by force. During the Turkish War, most of the islands in the Aegean Sea were seized.
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For the conquered areas, Mehmed II carried out taxation surveys on them in turn, and introduced the Timar system. Much of the territory ruled by Mehmed II laid the foundation for the Ottoman Empire before the 19th century.
At the same time as the expansion of land territory, the Ottoman Empire also began to expand its sea territory, Mehmed II sent a fleet to the northern shore of the Black Sea, expelled the crimean peninsula and its surrounding Genoa and Venetian armed forces, and under the efforts of Mehmed II, the Black Sea became the inland sea of the Ottoman Empire.
Faced with such a vast area, Mehmed II considered himself the overlord of the eastern Mediterranean, and in his documents of donation to religion, began to claim that his country was an empire that had risen after Rome (the Byzantine Empire) and that he himself was the emperor who had inherited the scepter of Alexander the Great.
As the golden age of Christianity passed, the territories ruled by empires were moving towards the Islamic era, and the people of the Balkans also accepted the rule of the Islamic regions, and they agreed with the islamic interpretation: time began in Genesis, passed through the Judaism era, after the Christian era, into the Islamic era, and then passed to the end of the day. It is precisely because of this that they have been able to become members of the new ruling class in the lands that have been passed down from generation to generation, and to play a role as close associates of the Sultan.
Portrait of Mohammed II by Nakka Sinan Bey in the 15th century
During the period of Muhammad II's absence, he not only expanded his territory, he also compiled codes, rewarded literature and art, and built buildings. He even brought in from Venice, one of the most important artists of the Renaissance, Gentile Bellini, to paint his own portraits and to paint frescoes for Christian sites in Constantinople. During the reign of Mehmed II, mathematics, astronomy, and Muslim theology in the Ottoman Empire reached the highest levels of the empire.
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Reference: Kodansha: Five Hundred Years of Peace in the Ottoman Empire
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