The Siege of 1453 was a defining moment for Constantinople and the world. The city, once considered impregnable, faced the formidable forces of the Ottoman Empire ... I in 537 AD, it was the ...

Outside it pours rain, but inside it is still the eternal dusk of May 29, 1453. The day marked the end of the two-month siege waged by the incoming Ottoman armies against the Byzantine Empire ...

The Empire collapsed 1,123 years later in 1453 when the Ottoman Turks conquered its capital (renamed Istanbul in 1930). Constantine's east-west unity of the Mediterranean world was shattered first ...

The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1299. It achieved its greatest military victory in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople. This ended the thousand-year history of the Eastern Roman Empire and ...

The triple-dot motif on the Virgin Mary’s dress is Ottoman in its roots. From the book ‘Impressions of Ottoman Culture in Europe: 1453–1699 ... impact of a vast empire at the world's ...