On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of ...
This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the ...
John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...
Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans' ...
In 1453, the Byzantine capital of Constantinople is surrounded by Ottoman Turks ... resulting in arguably the greatest siege of that age.