The city was looted for three days, in accordance with the traditional Muslim punishment allotted to a city that had resisted a siege. Mehmed was nicknamed "the Conqueror," and Constantinople was renamed Istanbul and became the new capital of the Ottoman Empire.
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The city was looted for three days, in accordance with the traditional Muslim punishment allotted to a city that had resisted a siege. Mehmed was nicknamed "the Conqueror," and Constantinople was renamed Istanbul and became the new capital of the Ottoman Empire.
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