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1 day ago · May 26, 2024. On May 29th, 1453, the great city of Constantinople fell to the besieging Ottoman army, marking the definitive end of the Byzantine Empire – the once-mighty eastern half of the ancient Roman Empire. The Byzantine collapse sent shockwaves across Europe and heralded the rise of Ottoman power in the Mediterranean.
5 days ago · Istanbul, largest city and principal seaport of Turkey. Historically known as Byzantium and then Constantinople, it was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Istanbul straddles the Bosporus strait, one of two waterways that separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey.
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2 days ago · The Eastern Roman Empire, called the Byzantine Empire by later historians, continued until the reign of Constantine XI Palaiologos. The last Roman emperor died in battle in 1453 against Mehmed II and his Ottoman forces during the siege of Constantinople.
4 days ago · The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II in 1453 was a pivotal moment in the history of Europe and the Near East: it marked the end of the Byzantine empire and the beginning of the centuries-long Ottoman domination of the eastern Mediterranean, north Africa and the Balkans.
5 days ago · It has produced one undoubted classic in the shape of Sir Steven Runciman’s The Fall of Constantinople 1453. (1) It was the tragic climax of the history of the Byzantine Empire, which provided some consolation for the humiliation of its decline, reduced as it was in its final years to little more than Constantinople itself.
4 days ago · The local churches of the Ecumenical Patriarchate consist of six archdioceses, 66 metropolises, 2 dioceses and one exarchate, each of which reports directly to the Patriarch of Constantinople with no intervening authority. Map of the Greek Orthodox Metropolises in Asia Minor c. 1880.
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5 days ago · Harris stresses that the Fourth Crusade was a major factor in the ultimate disappearance of the Byzantine empire in 1453, but which was however perpetuated in the Orthodox churches and in the cultural sphere (Chapter 11). A few remarks about Harris' bibliography.
