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Fall of Constantinople: 1453 in 1 Minute

Through Google Earth’s lens, we retrace the dramatic Fall of Constantinople in 1453. In just one minute, we chart the city’s imposing walls, the Ottoman siege led by Mehmed II, and the moment the ...
Los Angeles Times

Constantinople’s fall and the gate left open

The terminal events surrounding the fall of great empires have long been studied, pondered and argued over. Edward Gibbon’s “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” comes to mind as one of the best ...
scmp.com

Constantinople - City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924

It was a somewhat bedraggled Byzantine Constantinople that fell to 20-year-old Mehmed II, sultan of the Ottoman empire, in 1453. But soon it became what Philip Mansel calls 'the most grandiose of ...
La Brújula Verde

Orhan Çelebi, the exiled Ottoman prince who defended Constantinople in 1453

Depiction of the fall of Constantinople at the Military Museum in Istanbul. Credit: Dosseman / Wikimedia Commons In 1411, unable to gather followers to conquer Edirne, he was forced to renounce his ...
Daily Times

The conquest of Constantinople 1453 — bridge between the East and the West

The Byzantine Empire considered itself to be the caretaker of the Christian religion. The emperor was chosen by God and God had chosen the empire as the wheel to spread Christianity. Christianity was ...
The New York Times

The Fall of Constantinople, 1453.

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