Mehmet II (Ottoman Turkish: محمد الثانى Meḥmed-i sānī, ), (also known as "el-Fatih" (الفاتح), "the Conqueror", in Ottoman Turkish), or, in modern Turkish, "Fatih Sultan Mehmet") (March 30, 1432, Edirne  – May 3, 1481, Hünkârcayırı, near Gebze) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Rûm until the conquest) for a short time from 1444 to September 1446, and later from February 1451 to 1481. At the age of 21, he conquered Constantinople (on Tuesday, 29 May 1453), bringing an end to the Byzantine Empire.