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May 22, 2024 · Fall of Constantinople, (May 29, 1453), conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire. The dwindling Byzantine Empire came to an end when the Ottomans breached Constantinople’s ancient land wall after besieging the city for 55 days. Mehmed surrounded Constantinople from land and sea while employing cannon to maintain a ...
4 days ago · Cantacuzenus conquered Constantinople in 1347 and ended the civil war. In order to secure his authority Cantacuzenus hired Turkish mercenaries left over from the civil war to use in continuing skirmishes against his opponents.
May 8, 2024 · NPR - The Peloponnesian War (May 08, 2024) Peloponnesian War, (431–404 bce ), war fought between the two leading city-states in ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta. Each stood at the head of alliances that, between them, included nearly every Greek city-state. The fighting engulfed virtually the entire Greek world, and it was properly regarded ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 7, 2024 · The Sack of Constantinople in 1204 starkly demonstrated the complexities of medieval politics where religious and secular interests often collided. The event significantly weakened the Byzantine Empire, leading to its eventual downfall in 1453. Image: A drawing portraying the siege of Constantinople.
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5 days ago · While Leo III and his successors declared war on the Byzantine monasteries and their icons, Theodore the Studite was the strongest force against them. The ongoing wars with the Arabs and large territorial losses in the 600s had exhausted the Byzantine Empire.
May 18, 2024 · A multisided civil war ensued between Constantine and the several other factions vying for the throne. Constantine defeated his main rival for the Western emperorship in 312 and defeated the Eastern emperor in 324 after years of strained relations, thus making Constantine sole ruler of the Roman Empire.
6 days ago · Eleftherios Venizelos on the cover of Time magazine, 18 February 1924. Following the defeat of the Greek army by the Turks in 1922 and the subsequent armed insurrection led by Colonels Nikolaos Plastiras and Stylianos Gonatas, King Constantine was dethroned (and succeeded by his eldest son, George), and six royalist leaders were executed.
