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The year Constantinople nearly fell, Alexios Komnenos, the Pecheneg invasion, and the battle that saved Byzantium
By 1090, Byzantium was bleeding out after Manzikert, surrounded by rebels, steppe armies, and a Turkic warlord building a fleet to strike at the capital itself. This chapter follows Alexios Komnenos ...
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The Fall of Constantinople: The Great Siege of 1453
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 fortification was ...
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, ...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siege of Constantinople in 1453. When Sultan Mehmet the Second rode into the city of Constantinople on a white horse in 1453, it marked the end of a thousand years ...
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