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 has since been filed alongside 1066 in the pantheon of red-letter dates in history whose significance no one is quite sure […]
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/05/28/in-1453-this-ottoman-sultan-ended-christian-rule-in-constantinople-but-was-he-a-good-muslim/
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