On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, was captured by the Turks. In 1736 American patriot Patrick Henry was born in Hanover County, Va. In 1790 Rhode Island ratified the ...
Constantinople. The City of the World’s Desire. The largest city in Christendom for nearly a thousand years. Surprisingly few remember this grand city, capital of two of history’s greatest empires: ...
It was a somewhat bedraggled Byzantine Constantinople that fell to 20-year-old Mehmed II, sultan of the Ottoman empire, in 1453. But soon it became what Philip Mansel calls 'the most grandiose of ...
The Byzantine Empire considered itself to be the caretaker of the Christian religion. The emperor was chosen by God and God had chosen the empire as the wheel to spread Christianity. Christianity was ...
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