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Siege of Belgrade

حصار بلغراد

1456 CE · 860 AH† – 1456 CE · 860 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Belgrade

Three years after Constantinople, Mehmed II besieged Belgrade; the fortress held under John Hunyadi and the campaign withdrew 1.

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Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia
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In time

1440145014601470
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Belgrade

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Had participant
السلطان محمد الفاتح
Occurred at
Belgrade

People and things also explored

Conquest of Constantinople in 857 AH· Siege of Belgrade (1521)· Conquest of Trebizond· Ottoman invasion of Otranto· Siege of Negroponte· Siege of Rhodes· Siege of Shkodra· Siege of Theodoro

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001)
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Conquest of Constantinople in 857 AH

Mehmed Fatih took Constantinople the Great after the severest fifty-day siege — his ships running over land — opening Istanbul on Wednesday 20 Jumada II 857 and praying the Friday prayer in Hagia Sophia, the dome that 'rivals the sky's dome and emulates the pyramids in strength'.