He later wrote the work
History in five books. It is a historical account of the rise of the Ottomans and the final conquest of the remainder of the Roman Empire. Its main part is a biography of the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II, the Conqueror, to whom the work was also dedicated. Writing under Ottoman rule, Critobulus expressed admiration for Mehmet in his work, and combined mourning for the Greek loss with an acceptance of the shift of power to the
Ottoman Turks, which he interpreted as a divinely ordained world historic event. In doing so, Critobulus took as a literary model the works of
Flavius Josephus, the Jewish-Roman historian of the Roman destruction of
Jerusalem. His text is the most detailed historical account of the first decade of Turkish rule in
Constantinople, including the Ottoman efforts of rebuilding and repopulating the city. The autograph of his text has been preserved in the Library of the
Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. He used
Thucydides as a model for his
History. ==Editions==