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Barbarian hordes, age old empires, tremendous siege engines, feuding merchant states, conflicted religious leaders, age old prophecies of doom or victory depending on your view, naval battles and finally a philosopher emperor who having failed to get the outside support his city. The byzantine empire came to an end when the ottomans breached constantinoples ancient land wall after besieging the city for 55 days. Pears, edwin, the destruction of the greek empire and the story of the capture of constantinople by the turks. Though we know it as the byzantine empire, to them it was unequivocally still roman. The fall of constantinople 1453 steven runciman pdf by seattle. The fall of constantinople to the ottoman turks on may 29. Named after saint constantine the great, constantinople was the capital of the byzantine empire 330 1453.
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