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Balıkesir

بالي قصر

City in Turkey.

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Anatolia
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Birthplace of
Haci Ilbey· Hacihasanzade Efendi· Imam Birgivi· Kadizade Mehmed· Zati
Place of death of
Zaganos Pasha

People and things also explored

Conquest of Constantinople in 857 AH· Istanbul· Izmir· Haci Ilbey· Hacihasanzade Efendi· Imam Birgivi· Kadizade Mehmed· Zaganos Pasha

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islam.museum contributors. “Balıkesir”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/bal-kesir/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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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'. The Encyclopaedia of Islam adds that Mehmed II's troops entered through the breach in the walls at dawn on 20 Jumada I 857/29 May 1453 and the fighting ended towards mid-afternoon; the sultan then declared Hagia Sophia the Great Mosque and Istanbul his capital, after earlier Umayyad expeditions against the city.