Istanbul, Turkey: Constantinople, Walls ofWalls of Constantinople, modern Istanbul, Turkey.(more) Portions of the walls of Stamboul remain. The land walls, which isolate the peninsula from the mainland, werebreachedonly once, by cannon of the OttomansultanMehmed II(the Conqueror) in 1453, at th...
Excluding the subtitle, the book actually avoids the words Byzantium and Byzantines as "misleading modern terms," but this is the period between Emperor Constantine's move of the Roman capital to the city that is now Istanbul in 330, and its fall to the Turks in 1453. This is a serious...
History and geography of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into various feudal kingdoms. In the 14th century the Ottoman Turks began to encroach on Byzantin
The Hundred Years War was fought between France and England. This conflict lasted from 1337 to 1453 and was primarily fought over territorial disputes and the succession to the French throne. It was a series of conflicts and battles that involved both military engagements and periods of truce and...
to the name “England” because in Old English it meant “the land of the Angles” . According to theOxford English Dictionary,the first known use of “England” refering to the southern part of the island of Great Britain occurred in 897, and its modern spelling was first used in 1538...
In 1453, Mehmed II the Conqueror led the Ottoman Turks in seizing the ancient city of Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire’s capital. This put an end to the 1,000-year reign of the Byzantine Empire. Sultan Mehmed renamed the city Istanbul and made it the new capital of the Ottoman Empire...
Guide and Index of World History, Dynasties and Lists of RulersIsaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out ...
395, Greece became part of the Eastern Empire, which continued as the Byzantine Empire until 1453. That year the Turks captured Constantinople, the capital of Byzantium, and Greece became part of the Ottoman Empire. MODERN ERA Greece's declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire on Marc...
of Kings, and his brother John provoked a baronial revolt that led to the signing of the Magna Carta—the first serious limitation on monarch's power in England. Royal power was further weakened by England's defeat in the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453), depopulation caused by the Black ...
World War I (1914-1918)-Last war of the Czarist Russian Empire prior to the Bolshevik (Communist) Revolution. French Wars In Italy This series of wars, part of the ongoing Hapsburg-Valois Wars, involved repeated French invasions of Italy, which at the time consisted of several smaller states...