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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. Fall of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    Map of Constantinople and the dispositions of the defenders and the besiegers. The army defending Constantinople was relatively small, totalling about 7,000 men, 2,000 of whom were foreigners. [note 4] The population decline also had a huge impact upon the Constantinople's defense capabilities. At the end of March 1453, emperor Constantine XI ...

  4. List of sieges of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    Topographical map of Constantinople during the Byzantine period, corresponding to the modern-day Fatih district of Istanbul. The city was known as Byzantium under Roman Empire. Constantinople (today part of Istanbul, Turkey) was built on the land that links Europe to Asia through Bosporus and connects the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea.

  5. File:Siege of Constantinople 1453 map-en.svg - Wikipedia

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  6. Siege of Constantinople (674–678) - Wikipedia

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    This set the pattern that continued throughout the siege: each spring, the Arabs crossed the Marmara and assaulted Constantinople, withdrawing to Cyzicus for the winter. [1] [30] [19] [31] In fact, the "siege" of Constantinople was a series of engagements around the city, which may even be stretched to include Yazid's 669 attack. [32]

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Siege of Constantinople (1394–1402) - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Constantinople in 1394–1402 was a long blockade of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I. Already in 1391, the rapid Ottoman conquests in the Balkans had cut off the city from its hinterland .