The Fall of Constantinople 14531965 |
Contents
THE DYING EMPIRE | 1 |
THE RISING SULTANATE | 22 |
THE EMPEROR AND THE SULTAN | 48 |
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Adrianople Anatolia army attack Babinger Baltoghlu Barbaro Bayezit Bessarion Blachernae boom Bosphorus brothers Byzantine Byzantium cannon Cantacuzenus captured Catalan century Chalcocondylas Church command Constantine Critobulus Crusade daughter death defence Demetrius Despot died Ducas emirate Emperor Empire enemy Europe faith fall of Constantinople fighting fleet foss frontier galleys Gennadius Genoese George Germiyan ghazi Giustiniani Golden Horn Greek Gregory Mammas Halil harbour Hisar Historia Holy Hunyadi Imperial infidel Isidore Islam Italian Italy Janissaries John Jorga Kerkoporta King land-walls lands later Latin Leonard of Chios Lucas Notaras Manuel Marmora Military Gate monastery Morea Moslem Murad Orhan Orthodox Ottoman Palace Palaeologus Pasha Patriarch Phrantzes Podestà Podestà of Pera Pope princes Psamathia Pusculus Roman Rome sack sailed sailors Saint seems sent Serbian siege Slavic Chronicle soldiers soon stantinople stockade Sultan Sultan Mehmet surrender Tetaldi towers Trebizond troops Turkish Turks union Venetian Venice Vizier walls Western Zaganos Zaganos Pasha