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The Turkish Empire, Its Growth and Decay

Note 16 — VII MAHOMET II, ‘THE CONQUEROR’ 1451-81

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The four pages which Gibbon devotes to a description of this attempted union of the two Churches are masterpieces of irony and scorn (Gibbon, viii. pp. 287-91).

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