Today, August 15, marks the anniversary of Constantinople’s victory over Muslim invaders in what historians commonly call the “Second Siege of Byzantium,” 717–18. Prior to this massive ...

This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453. When history's greatest ...

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

Greek fire was a mysterious weapon that helped the mighty Byzantine Empire survive and ensure its vast sovereignty for ...

The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West Roger Crowley Hyperion: 304 pp., $25.95 Constantinople's fall and the gate left open - Los Angeles Times ...

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Melvyn Bragg discusses the 1453 siege of Constantinople. A bitter and bloody 53 days that ended a thousand years of the Byzantine Empire. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siege of ...

Patriarch Germanus of Constantinople, ... Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, was dangerously under siege by Saracen armies. During that time (717-718), ...