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Also Known As Muhammad the Conqueror • Mehmed Fatih • Mehmed the Conqueror
Born March 30, 1432 • Edirne • Turkey
Died May 3, 1481 (aged 49) • near Istanbul • Turkey
Title / Office sultan (1451-1481), Ottoman Empire • sultan (1444-1446), Ottoman Empire
Role In Fall of Constantinople • Siege of Constantinople

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