The Roman situation before the fall of Constantinople was dire but not hopeless. Ottoman victory was not inevitable.
In 1453, Constantine XI ruled a Constantinople dramatically different from its imperial peak. Once home to more than half a ...
On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...
Mehmed launches an ambitious siege to break through the walls of Constantinople, but Giustiniani's mercenaries manage to forestall the Janissaries. Mehmed's men dig underground tunnels in an attempt ...
It's Istanbul, not Constantinople, that straddles the Bosporus Strait today. But more than half a millennium ago—on May 29, 1453—it was Constantinople, then the last bastion of the Roman Empire, that ...
Introduction -- The position of Imperial Architect and the Balyan family -- Karapet Balyan as an Amira and his role in the mobilization of the Armenian community of Constantinople -- The Balyan family ...
Is there really anything new to say about the conquest of Constantinople? In the absence of fresh archaeological discoveries, ...
On May 29, 1453, the Ottoman army under Sultan Mehmet II broke through the walls of Constantinople, conquering the capital and last major holdout of the Byzantine Empire. In much of the world, 1453 ...
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