Feature on the fall of the Byzantine Empire (VIDEO)
May 29th this year marks the 566th anniversary of the fall of Christendom’s most important metropolis in the east to the Ottoman Turks — after a siege of nearly two months.
Several thousand defenders of the 1000-year capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, known in our days as Byzantium, fell in battle, including the last emperor Constantine Paleologos, against a force of nearly 100,000 invaders.
Historians, theologians and university professors detail the events that led up to the heroic last stand and fall of Constantinople – a milestone event in the history of Hellenism and the entire Near East.
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