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Fall of Constantinople in 1 minute using Google Earth

A fast visual walkthrough of the fall of Constantinople, using Google Earth to show key locations, troop movements, and how the city was finally breached in 1453.
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What Constantinople really looked like in 1453

In 1453, Constantinople was no longer the metropolis of Justinian. Its population had shrunk dramatically. Entire districts were fields. The Hippodrome lay in ruins. The Great Palace was largely ...
La Brújula Verde

Orhan Çelebi, the exiled Ottoman prince who defended Constantinople in 1453

Depiction of the fall of Constantinople at the Military Museum in Istanbul. Credit: Dosseman / Wikimedia Commons In 1411, unable to gather followers to conquer Edirne, he was forced to renounce his ...
The Washington Post

In 1453, this Ottoman sultan ended Christian rule in Constantinople. But was he a good Muslim?

On May 29, 1453, the Ottoman army under Sultan Mehmet II broke through the walls of Constantinople, conquering the capital and last major holdout of the Byzantine Empire. In much of the world, 1453 ...
Daily Times

The conquest of Constantinople 1453 — bridge between the East and the West

The Byzantine Empire considered itself to be the caretaker of the Christian religion. The emperor was chosen by God and God had chosen the empire as the wheel to spread Christianity. Christianity was ...
The New York Times

The Fall of Constantinople, 1453.

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