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Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos

الإمبراطور مانويل الثاني

Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor through the reigns of Mehmed I and Murad II — in al-Sallabi's account the hand behind the intrigues against the Ottoman throne: funding Prince Mustafa's rising to the siege of Gallipoli, then harbouring another brother of Murad who seized Nicomedia before Murad destroyed him 1. The book also has him fruitlessly appealing to Europe when Bayezid I demanded Constantinople's surrender 2.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Anatolia
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    Christian (transmitted)

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    Summary

    Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor through the reigns of Mehmed I and Murad II — the book has him appealing fruitlessly to Europe when Bayezid I demanded Constantinople's surrender 2, and standing behind the intrigues of Murad's reign: funding Prince Mustafa's rising to the siege of Gallipoli, then harbouring another brother of Murad who seized Nicomedia before Murad marched on him and destroyed his force 1.

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    مراد الثاني
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    Prince Mustafa, son of Bayezid I

    People and things also explored

    مراد الثاني· Prince Mustafa, son of Bayezid I· The second battle of Kosovo· Battle of Varna and the breach of the treaty· Conquest of Thessalonica· Treaty of Szeged (1444)· بايزيد الأول الصاعقة· John Hunyadi

    Sources

    1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 79
    2. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 68
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    مراد الثاني

    Murad II (r. 824–855/1421–1451 CE) — crushed his uncle Mustafa's Byzantine-backed revolt, stormed Thessaloniki in 833/1431, and fathered Mehmed the Conqueror. Al-Sallabi has him twice abdicating for a life of retreat at Magnesia: recalled first to smash the oath-breaking crusade at Varna in 848/1444 — the broken treaty raised on a spear-point, King Ladislas dead by his own lance — then again when the Janissaries rioted in Edirne, staying on the throne through the second Kosovo victory in 852/1448. A patron of poets who held a twice-weekly majlis for them, he sent 3,500 dinars yearly to the Haramayn and Jerusalem, died at Edirne palace aged about forty-seven, and was buried by his austere will beside the Muradiyya mosque at Bursa.