Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries.Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries.Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries.
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- TriviaGeorge Sphrantzes was the Emperor Constantine XI's personal secretary and a friend. According to his own account of the conquest of Constantinople, his daughter Thamar (named Therma in the series) was 12 years old when the city fell and was taken into captivity by the Turks, dying in the Sultan's harem in September 1455 of an infectious disease. Therefore, the series inaccurately portrays her as having escaped to the island of Chios, which was then controlled by Genoa. There is also no evidence that Thamar and Giovanni Giustiniani Longo, the leader of the Genoese mercenaries, were in a romantic relationship.
Contemporary accounts do report, on the other hand, that the mortally-wounded Giustiniani was carried off to a Genoese galley which then headed for Chios. Giustiniani died either en route or shortly after arriving on the island and was buried in the Church of San Domenico (later the Church of Santa Maria del Castello, which eventually was converted into a mosque following the Turkish conquest of the island in 1566). The tomb is now lost.
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Vlad vs Mehmed
Too bad Netflix didn't do season 2 about Huniadi. It makes no sense why Vlad hates Mehmed so much. His hostage time with the ottomans couldn't have had such an impact on his personality. People weren't that complicated then... If the viewers had seen Ioan Huniade's war with the empire and how Vlad's family was involved, things would have had more clarity and truthfulness. Plus viewers would have had the chance of finding out how Vlad's family came to be known by that name...
On the other hand it's good that western civilisation has a chance to know more about this famous or rather infamous ruler which inspired Stocker.
Unfortunately, the Romanian historians invited to participate in the making of the documentary are not the most representative. Or were not given enough space to complete and explain the story....
Unfortunately, the Romanian historians invited to participate in the making of the documentary are not the most representative. Or were not given enough space to complete and explain the story....
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- paulabuzgau
- Dec 28, 2022
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- Rise of Empires: Ottoman: Mehmed vs Vlad
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- Istanbul, Turkey(location)
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