On this day in 1453, Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire which had lasted for nearly 1,500 years.
On this day in 1453, Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire which had lasted for nearly 1,500 years.
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Mehmed is a cool name and probably the most important sultan over sulieman. He got his own Netflix series too. It’s okay not my favorite but not bad.
Only real ones remember this day.
To be *that* guy, it was the Roman Empire (it was an uninterrupted continuation – in territory, institutions and culture, of the Roman Empire, it considered itself identical with it, and the term ‘Byzantine’ was only coined after it had already ceased to exist), and it had lasted over 1,800 years – Rome was already an empire (a multicultural state entity ruling various peoples and territories) when its political system was still that of a republic.
As a Turk sometimes I wish it didn’t happen…
Mehmed’s ambition for become a Roman emperor was great for a king. He tried to reach to Rome, took Otranto but died and his son let it go.
What if Mehmed who literally claimed he was actually Greek (He claimed he was a Komnenos, FOR REAL lol) accepted Pope’s offer and became Catholic?
Poor Balkans: Yay Turks are Christian now! We are finally saved!
T: Shut up Orthodox heretic!
xx
“Heretic Germans makin up something to our religion, i have to conquer Wien now!”
Poland: Need a hand? Let’s do it together!
“I hate two things; billiard & heresy” – Solomon Magnifique
There’s a cracking podcast about Byzantium called The History of The Byzantine Empire by Lars Brownworth. Worth checking out.
Constantinople is under occupation.
The sack of Constantinople in 1204 by the Crusaders weakened the empire to the point where they could never really recover and this happened 249 years later.
DEUS VULT
This [2-part documentary](https://youtu.be/MC83SpIS49g) about it is really good 🙂
I’ll come back tomorrow and will browse by controversial. Should be interesting.
Byzantine lasted 1,500 years? That’s totally wrong.
What fell what the Roman Empire or a succesor kingdom that at best could be said started after the death of emperor Heraclius since 641 or since Constans II Thematic system. Or even it can be said that it really started after the sack of Constantinople in 1204.
And as another commentary explained “Byzantine” is term invented after this empire/Kingdom fell. It seems it was in the Holy German Roman Empire to discredit the Romanness of the empire that had Constantinople as his capital.
A dark time indeed
Ironic that Erdogan won this on this day💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
The Roman Empire continued to exist until 1917