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  2. 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.

  3. List of sieges of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    It later became known as Constantinople, and in the years that followed it came under attack by both Byzantine pretenders fighting for the throne and also by foreign powers for a total of 22 times. The city remained under Byzantine rule until the Ottoman Empire took over as a result of the siege in 1453, known as the Fall of Constantinople ...

  4. Nicolò Barbaro - Wikipedia

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    Giornale dell’assedio di Costantinopoli 1453, Vienna 1856. Nicolò Barbaro, son of Marco, 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. [1] [2]

  5. History of Constantinople - Wikipedia

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    Hagia Sophia Cathedral — a symbol of Byzantine Constantinople. The history of Constantinople covers the period from the Consecration of the city in 330, when Constantinople became the new capital of the Roman Empire, to its conquest by the Ottomans in 1453. Constantinople was rebuilt practically from scratch on the site of Byzantium.

  6. Ottoman Greece - Wikipedia

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    The Ottomans divided Greece into six sanjaks, each ruled by a Sanjakbey accountable to the Sultan, who established his capital in Constantinople in 1453. "The Hyperian Fountain at Pherae", Edward Dodwell, 1821. View of the Phanarion quarter, the historical centre of the Greek community of Constantinople in Ottoman times, ca. 20th century

  7. Giovanni Giustiniani - Wikipedia

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    Marios Philippides and Walter Hanak's The Siege and Fall of Constantinople in 1453 Historiography, Topography and Military studies is a book containing a staggeringly comprehensive look at the fall of Constantinople that draws on many original Greek sources. It also mentions Giustiniani quite a few times as it lays out evidence for questions ...

  8. List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia

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    (1453–1550) (7) Mehmed II: 3 February 1451 – 3 May 1481 (30 years, 89 days) Second reign; Conquered Constantinople in 1453. Reigned until his death. 8 Bayezid II: 19 May 1481 – 25 April 1512 (30 years, 342 days) Son of Mehmed II and Gülbahar Hatun. [21] Abdicated. Died near Didymoteicho on 26 May 1512. — Cem Sultan: 28 May – 20 June ...

  9. List of Crusades - Wikipedia

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    After visiting Jerusalem, the party returned via Constantinople, where they were received by the emperor, then sailed to Apulia where they took horses for the journey to Rome, arriving back in Orkney in time for Christmas 1153. [224] Crusade or Pilgrimage of Henry the Lion. The Crusade or Pilgrimage of Henry the Lion (1172).