>Finishes off a dying city state of an empire and some Balkan & Anatolian princelingsHe's kinda overrated isn't it?His grandson was arguably a better conqueror but people don't talk about him much
>>17996614He finished off the principalities, the princelings he creampied.
>>17996614>>Finishes off a dying city state of an empireAnd that only thanks to discovering by pure chance that some retard left one of the secret doors open.Insane how powerful the Theodosian Walls were, that armies struggled to break through them even 1000 years after they were built.
Yeah, total dominance over a dying political landscape is just easy prey.
>>17996614Before him the Ottomans were just another principality with thrace, parts of greece, and north western anatolia duking it out with the fucking serbs over the balkans. He turned the ottomans into a great power by conquering anatolia and the balkans. In Europe he fought a coalition of kingdoms and in the middle east he fought with Uzun Hasan over dominance over the middle east
>>17996614Don't forget he outnumbered said city 10:1, had a larger navy, had cannons, and it took over a month to finish off the city and he still nearly lost.
>>17997695>Before him the Ottomans were just another principality with thrace, parts of greece, and north western anatolia duking it out with the fucking serbs over the balkansNo, they were already by far the hegemon of that region since Bayezid
