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The young Ottoman Sultan, Mehmet II, who reigned from 1451 to 1481, set about cutting off Constantinople’s supply lines.
To the left of the high altar is a small chapel whose 10th-century Madonna di Nicopeia, a bejeweled icon also from Constantinople, is said to have healing powers and is a runner-up as Venice’s protective patron after St. Mark.
In 1920, with army support, he was elected president of the Grand National Assembly in Ankara in defiance of the Sultan’s government in Constantinople.
It was commissioned in 936 by Abdel-Rahman III in honor of his favorite concubine Al Zahra (The Flower), and its design was so grand that detailed records indicate that building materials were brought from Constantinople and other North African locations.
Constantinople was taken by Crusader forces in 1204, and they stripped the city of manyof its finest treasures — which now grace the public buildings of Venice — although a large consignment of books and manuscripts was transferred to the monastery at Patmos before the city fell.