After conquering Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans began reshaping the city into their imperial capital while expanding further into Europe. This video traces the aftermath of the conquest ...

we reminded ourselves of the fall of Constantinople in May 1453. On May 29, 1453, the city of Constantinople was besieged by the Turks. The city, "second Rome", then acted as a bulwark for ...

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 histories greatest ...

Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age. The capital of the ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. This essay examines the fall of Constantinople in 1453 as a critical juncture for the playing out of Chrisitan-Muslim relations.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...