This year marks the 570th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, on 29 May 1453. The city at the Bosporus, on the border between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, bridging Europe, Asia Minor and the Balkans, was originally called Byzantium.

2005年1月29日 · Letter describing Archbishop Isidore’s capture by the Turks during the fall of Constantinople and his journey to Italy. The Knights of St. John on Rhodes write of the city’s fall and Turkish plans to the Margrave of Brandenburg in Jerusalem.

What happened to the manuscripts at The Fall of Constantinople? Aghia Sophia As (Encyclopaedia Britannica 1980) indicates The Byzantine Empire lasted from 330CE - 1453 CE, during this time we had the Christians of the west (Fourth Crusade) conquer Constantinople from 1204 CE till they were cast out in 1261 CE.

The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire. The city was captured on 29 May 1453 as part of the culmination of a 55-day siege which had begun on 6 April.

2017年6月27日 · Illustrated manuscripts constitute an important source for Byzantine art, owing to the number of examples surviving across time and the great loss of monumental painting from Constantinople, the seat of the court and center of patronage from the 9th century onward.

2010年5月29日 · Selected Bibliography: The present narrative describing the siege and fall of Constantinople, in 1453, is based entirely on accounts written by eyewitnesses (people who were in the city during the events) as well as on modern international scholarship. In particular see:

On May 29, 1453, the city of Constantinople fell and signaled the official fall of the Byzantine Empire, even though it had been on its last legs for centuries. Indeed, by the time Constantine XI died in his kingdom’s capital, the ‘empire’ was little more than the …

The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 brought Turkish politics closer to western Europe. The Italian merchant cities already had commercial ties with the Ottomans across the Mediterranean, but after the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, western Europeans became increasingly more interested in — and often worried...

2014年6月30日 · The Fall of Byzantine Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 is one of those monumental events that has captured the imagination of historians, writers, bards, and poets the world over, both contemporary and modern.

Hē halōsis tēs Kōnstantinoupoleōs : tetartē staurophoria = The fall of Constantinople : fourth crusade ; 357 p. ill. (1 col.), facsims ; 24 cm. "A critical edition with translation, grammatical and historical commentary of the codex 408 Marcianus Graecus (ff.1-13v) in …