Fall of Constantinople

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Constantinople, the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, was captured by the Ottoman Empire on 29 May 1453 as part of the culmination of a 53-day siege which had begun on 6 April.

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Image: Illustration by fr (Jean Le Tavernier) accompanying a translation by Jean Miélot of Bertrandon de la Broquière's Voyage d'Outre-Mer. It is one of three full-page miniatures in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, MSS fr. 9087, at folio 207 vv. Image taken from: http://expositions.bnf.fr/flamands/grand/fla_444.htm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.