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Many historians consider May 29, 1453, to be the date on which the Middle Ages ended. It was on this date that Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, fellto the Ottoman Empire, after being under siege for almost two months. With the fall of the capital, the Byzantine Empire...
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 whenthe Ottomans breached Constantinople's ancient land wall after besieging the city for 55 days. What was the original name of Turkey?
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of alliances, ultimately being set-off by the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Serbia. It was made up of the alliance powers i.e. Russia, Britain, France, Italy and ultimately the Unites States versus the central powers of Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Bulgaria....
Focusing on day to day tasks and waiting for the weekend is a trap that we all fall into at some point. In the book, The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubens states, “The days are long but the years are short.” Due to the instability of our current life (traveling with few ...
Built by Constantine II of the Byzantine Empire as the largest Church in the sixth century, the Hagia Sophia was to be the biggest church in the world. After the Ottoman take over of Istanbul in the 1400s, it was turned into a mosque. Some of the paintings were changed, and large ...
Martin Feldstein calls for “forced” purchases of bonds in order to “bailout” bankrupt Spain. The question is, not will America be next but when will America be next?“Time For Householders To Buy Bonds And Save Spain,”In an op-ed penned for The Financial Times, Feldstein advises ...
I turned to Thomas for help. As he explained, they are not Turkish at all, but rather 14th- or 15th-century European swords. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the city’s new Ottoman rulers converted a Byzantine church, the Hagia Eirene, into a military depot, filling it with ...