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The Siege of Constantinople is a two-player board wargame where one player controls the Ottoman forces, and the other the defenders of the city. With a small 17" x 22" hex grid map, and only 200 counters, this game resembles SPI's previously published and relatively simple quadrigames in size and components, but the addition of many new rules made it "one of the most complex of the 'small ...
The Sack of Constantinople that took place in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade caused the city to fall and to be established as the capital of the Latin Empire. It also sent the Byzantine imperial dynasty to exile, who founded the Empire of Nicaea. Constantinople came under Byzantine rule again in 1261 who ruled for nearly two centuries.
The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire.The city was captured on 29 May 1453 as part of the culmination of a 55-day siege which had begun on 6 April.
Constantinople was almost in the hands of the Turks; in order to mobilize a crusade, Alfonso sent ambassadors to Prester John (the negus of Ethiopia), to the emperor of Trebizond, John Komnenos, to Constantinople, Constantine XI Palaiologos, and to the khan of Beijing (1452). But Constantinople fell on May 29, 1453.
Giovanni Giustiniani Longo (Greek: Ιωάννης Λόγγος Ιουστινιάνης, romanized: Iōánnēs Lóngos Ioustiniánēs; Latin: Ioannes Iustinianus Longus; 1418 – 1 June 1453) was a Genoese nobleman, mercenary captain, and defender of Constantinople during its siege in 1453. He was instrumental in its defense and commanded 700 ...
Giornale dell’assedio di Costantinopoli 1453, Vienna 1856. Nicolò Barbaro, son of Marco, (1427–28 – c. 1521) was a Venetian nobleman and author of an eyewitness account, written in Venetian vernacular, documenting the Ottoman siege and conquest of Byzantine Constantinople in 1453, also known as the Fall of Constantinople.
Articles related to the Fall of Constantinople (1453), the capture of the Byzantine Empire's capital by the Ottoman Empire. The city fell on 29 May 1453, [1] the culmination of a 53-day siege which had begun on 6 April 1453.
Before the siege of Constantinople began, he reached the outskirts of the city by 4 April 1453. [5] He then escaped from his abductors and entered Constantinople by 18 April. [5] Nestor Iskander played a role in the defense of the city and was also involved in counting and possibly identifying the dead and wounded. [6]