under sultan mehmed the conqueror's leadership, the ottomans were finally able to capture constantinople.
under whose leadership were the ottomans finally able to capture constantinople?
sultan mehmed the conqueror
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the ottomans had begun their conquest of the balkans and greece in the late 14th century and early 15th century. in 1445, ottoman-occupied thessaly was recaptured by future emperor constantine xi, at the time despot of mystras, but there was little he could do against most of the other ottoman territories. emperor constantine was defeated and killed in 1453 when the ottomans finally captured constantinople. after the fall of constantinople, the ottomans also captured athens and the aegean islands by 1458, but left a byzantine despotate in the peloponnese until 1460. the venetians still controlled crete and some ports, but otherwise the ottomans controlled many regions of greece except the mountains and heavily forested areas.
byzantine greece