INSTITUCIÓN EDUCATIVA PRIVADA “Estudio, Solidaridad, Trabajo e Integración”

DOSCIENTAS MILLAS PERUANAS “Al descubrimiento de nuevos horizontes”

FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE

The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of

the Byzantine Empire by an invading army of the Ottoman Empire on
29 May 1453. The Ottomans were commanded by the then 21-year-
old Mehmed the Conqueror, the seventh sultan of the Ottoman
Empire, who defeated an army commanded by Byzantine
Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos. The conquest of Constantinople
followed a 53-day siege that had begun on 6 April 1453.

The capture of Constantinople (and two other Byzantine splinter

territories soon thereafter) marked the end of the Roman Empire, an
imperial state that had lasted for nearly 1,500 years.  The Ottoman
conquest of Constantinople also dealt a massive blow to Christendom,
as the Muslim Ottoman armies thereafter were left unchecked to
advance into Europe without an adversary to their rear. After the
conquest, Sultan Mehmed II transferred the capital of the Ottoman
Empire from Edirne to Constantinople.

The conquest of the city of Constantinople and the end of the

Byzantine Empire was a key event in the Late Middle Ages, which also
marks, for some historians, the end of the Middle Ages.