The Fall of Constantinople
The night Constantinople fell — and a thousand-year empire came to an end.
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On May 29, 1453, after a fifty-three-day siege, Mehmed the Second enters Constantinople and ends the Roman Empire that had survived a thousand years after the fall of Rome. A story of walls that held for centuries, an emperor who refused to flee, and a legend that still lives on today.
Sources
- Steven Runciman, The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Cambridge University Press, 1965)
- Kenneth M. Setton, The Papacy and the Levant, 1204–1571, Vol. II
- Marios Philippides & Walter K. Hanak, The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 (Ashgate, 2011)
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