SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Constantinople
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Rome
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Athens
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Vienna
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fall of Constantinople, (May 29, 1453), conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire. The dwindling Byzantine Empire came to an end when the Ottomans breached Constantinople’s ancient land wall after besieging the city for 55 days.
Detailed explanation-2: -The city of Constantinople fell on May 29, 1453. Mehmet’s forces sacked the city and sold the surviving inhabitants into slavery. The Sultan Mehmet entered Hagia Sophia, what had been a church, and now turned it into a mosque.
Detailed explanation-3: -The city was finally besieged and conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1453, remaining under its control until the early 20th century, after which it was renamed Istanbul under the Empire’s successor state, Turkey.