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Mohammed II (c.1430-81) was Sultan from 1461 to 1481. He was surnamed El-Ghazi, i.e., conqueror (of infidels), and also Buyuk, i.e., the Great. On May 29, 1453, plundered and devasted Constantinople.
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 382.
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