Mehmet II : The Conquerer who remade the World

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…Bayezid II was, in many ways, defined by what he was not: he was not Mustafa, the lost heir; he was not Cem, the favored younger son; and he was not Mehmet, the Conqueror whose shadow fell over everything he did. He ruled for thirty-one years, longer than his father, and left his own mark on the empire. But history has never quite let him step out of that shadow. Perhaps that is the most human part of their story—that even the son of a conqueror, even a sultan who ruled an empire stretching across three continents, could spend his entire life trying to be seen as something other than his father's disappointment.