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 ...

As a title, "1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West" is rather dry and academic. But Roger Crowley's book, despite its extensive bibliography, is anything but ...

The crusaders reach Constantinople, strip the countryside for supplies, break the chain at the Golden Horn, and launch a siege that exposes the empire’s paralysis under Alexius III. When the emperor ...

On May 29, 1453, Ottoman forces, under the leadership of Mehmet II, concluded their long and bloody siege of Constantinople by storming the city and overtaking it. According to Crowley, who works in ...

The siege of Constantinople by the Avars in a fresco in the Romanian monastery of Moldovita. Credit: DimiTalen / Wikimedia Commons Although the most famous one was carried out by the Ottomans in 1453, ...

Today marks the 560th anniversary of the fall and capture of the magnificent Christian city of Constantinople, the eastern capital of the Roman Empire, to the forces led by the Ottoman Turkish Sultan, ...

After the Ottoman's defeat the Serbian Lazar at the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, their new Sultan Bayezid I continued their expansion. The next few decades saw many turbulent changes, among which a war with ...

The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

Die Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes veröffentlicht Aufsätze und Rezensionen auf dem Gebiet der Ägyptologie, der altorientalischen Philologie (Sprachen: Sumerisch, Akkadisch, ...

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