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  2. Siege of Constantinople (717–718) - Wikipedia

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    Following the first Arab siege of Constantinople (674–678), the Arabs and Byzantines experienced a period of peace. After 680, the Umayyad Caliphate was in the throes of the Second Muslim Civil War, and the consequent Byzantine ascendancy in the East enabled the emperors to extract huge amounts of tribute from the Umayyad government in Damascus. [5]

  3. The Siege of Constantinople (game) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Fall of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of sieges of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    Constantinople came under Byzantine rule again in 1261 who ruled for nearly two centuries. The city was taken by the Ottomans with the siege in 1453, and as a result the Byzantine Empire came to an end. The city has been under the rule of Turks since the last siege, except for the period of Allied occupation from 1920 to 1923.

  6. List of cities besieged by the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia

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    Siege of Constantinople,1453 Siege of Rhodes, 1480 Siege of Eger Castle, 1552 Great Siege of Malta, 1565. ... This page was last edited on 5 December 2023, ...

  7. Sack of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    Map showing Constantinople and its walls during the Byzantine era. Following the siege of Constantinople in 1203, on 1 August 1203 the pro-Crusader Alexios Angelos was crowned Emperor Alexios IV of the Byzantine Empire. He attempted to pacify the city, but riots between anti-Crusader Greeks and pro-Crusader Latins broke out later that month and ...

  8. Siege of Constantinople (1422) - Wikipedia

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    In 1422, the Ottoman Empire laid siege to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, as a result of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II's attempts to interfere in the succession of Ottoman Sultans, after the death of Mehmed I in 1421. This policy of the Byzantines was often used successfully in weakening their neighbours.

  9. Category:Sieges of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    Siege of Constantinople (626) Siege of Constantinople (674–678) Siege of Constantinople (717–718) Siege of Constantinople (821–822) Siege of Constantinople (860) Rus'–Byzantine War (941) Siege of Constantinople (1047) Siege of Constantinople (1203) Sack of Constantinople; Siege of Constantinople (1235) Siege of Constantinople (1260 ...