fall of Constantinople
Ottoman siege victory
The fall of Constantinople refers to the Ottoman conquest of the Byzantine capital in 1453, ending the Eastern Roman Empire after more than a thousand years.
The event marks a traditional boundary between the medieval and early modern periods in European history.
The fall of Constantinople sent Greek scholars westward, fueling the Renaissance.
- Byzantine EmpireMedieval eastern Roman state
- ByzantineOf Constantinople's civilization
- OttomanMember of Turkish dynasty
- fall of RomeAncient superpower's disintegration
- Ottoman EmpireTurkish sultanate, 1299-1922
end of an era · siege · city walls · walls · Sultan · Hagia Sophia · empire · crusade · Turks · conquest · cannon · defenders · medieval warfare · Bosphorus · cathedral · mosque · holy city · sack
- Late Medievalfeudal lords, Black Death, knighthood, medieval knights, bubonic plague
- ByzantiumByzantine Empire, Hagia Sophia, Eastern Roman Empire, Byzantium, Constantine I
- Palaiologoidouble-headed eagle, double headed eagle, dynastic struggles
- BalkansAlbania, Bosnia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Kosovo
fall of ConstantinopleReconquista
Iberian Christian territorial recovery
Battle of Lepanto · First Crusade · Treaty of Karlowitz · Greek War of Independence
falls, fallen, falling, Constantinople, constant, constancy, constantly, inconstant