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"In his thirty years in power
Sultan Mehmed II had fought eighteen campaigns in person. The Ottoman Empire which he created was an extensive mass of land and sea which sat at the hub of the great trading networks of the time.
Moribund and depopulated, Byzantine Constantinople had been remade as the flourish capital of territories that included the Balkan Peninsula as far as the Adriatic in the west, the Danube-Sava line in the north, and most of Anatolia.
The Black Sea coast marked a relatively safe frontier beyond which there were at this time no states capable of threatening Ottoman power. Rivals still threatened to east and west, but within the limits of Mehmed's state a pax ottomanica brought a measure of internal security which was disturbed only by localized brigand activity on land corsairs at sea."
"The rebuilding of Mehmed's new capital and supplying it with goods and services was a heavy burden on the finances at his disposal. His search for ready cash led him to debase the coinage on six occasions, but there is no record of further protest by the Janissaries like those which greeted his first debasement during his brief occupation of the Thorne at the time of his father's abdication in 1444-6."
From Dr. Caroline Finkel's "Osman's Dream: A History of the Ottoman Empire"
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