May 29, 1453, is one of those landmark historical dates. On that day the fall of Constantinople occurred —and with it that of ...

This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453. When history's greatest fortification was ...

On May 29, 1453, Ottoman forces, under the leadership of Mehmet II, concluded their long and bloody siege of Constantinople by storming the city and overtaking it. According to Crowley, who works in ...

After the Ottoman's defeat the Serbian Lazar at the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, their new Sultan Bayezid I continued their ...

This week marks the anniversary of one of the sadder days in the history of both Christianity and the Western world, although almost no one will mark its passing. Saturday, May 29, is the anniversary ...

Mehmed II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, known in Turkish as Fatih, the Conqueror, was only 20 in 1453. Born in Edirne, the Ottoman capital zoo miles north-west of Constantinople, he had, according to ...

Humphreys (Vlad: The Last Confession) offers a strong work of historical fiction set in the 19450s, about the battle of Mehmet, sultan of the Ottoman Turks, to conquer Constantinople, a target that ...