Constantinople 1453
Subtitle: The End of Byzantium (Praeger Illustrated Military History)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: September 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780275988562
Subjects: Battles & campaigns; European history: c 500 to c 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Military History (General); History; History - Military / War; Military; Byzantine Empire; Turkey; Medieval; Middle East - Turkey; Military - Other; History / Military / General; Military - General; Istanbul (Turkey); Siege, 1453
First sentence: The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 is sometimes regarded as the end of the Roman Empire, or as the absorption of a redundant relic by a new and expansionist superstate.