Sultan Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire

Feb. 29 Sephardic Jews in Turkey. Black and White Print - Sultan Mehmet II: Sultan Mehmet II called Fatih The Conqueror who conquered Constantinople in 1453. He established the millet system, granting religious freedom and internal self government to his non-Islamic subjects. These conditions paved the way for the Sephardic Jews who arrived in the Ottoman Empire after the expulsion from Spain of 1492, allowing them to keep their religion, their customs and in particular their 15th century Spanish language, still spoken today in Turkey

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1453 1492 Allowing Conquered Conqueror Established Expulsion Fatih Granting Internal Language Mehmet Millet Particular Paved Sephardic Spoken Subjects

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