Название: The Crusade of 1456: Texts and Documentation in Translation
Автор: James D. Mixson
Издательство: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487505760
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 324
Размер: 11,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

In July 1456, a massive Turkish army settled in before Belgrade, an ancient city at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers. The army’s leader was the twenty-four-year-old Ottoman sultan Mehmed II, "the Conqueror," who sought to take one of the most strategically important fortifications in southeastern Europe.