The film is adapted from the historical battle of Mehmed II's capture of the Byzantine capital Constantinople in 1453. The production started in 2009 and lasted for three years.
In 1453, the Byzantine capital Constantinople was surrounded by Turkish invaders. As the imperial treasury gradually emptied, Constantinople at this time was just a shadow of its former glory, while the Turkish Empire gradually became stronger. After enduring the Byzantine Empire for so many years, the ambitious Sultan Mohammed II (Devrim Evin) launched a campaign to end the Byzantine Empire. Led cavalry and warships to capture the Byzantine capital Constantinople, thus ending more than a thousand years of domination by the Eastern Roman Empire, conquering Constantinople in the name of the Turks, and establishing the Ottoman Empire as a country that spanned across Europe and Asia , where Eastern and Western civilizations meet.
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