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The Fall of Constantinople The Ottoman Conquest of Byzantium David Nicolle • Stephen Turnbull • John Haldon | ||||||||||||
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Cena okładkowa: 20.00 GBP
Cena detaliczna: 75.00 zł
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| "Regarded by some as the tragic end of the last bastion of the Roman Empire, and by others as the belated suppression of a redundant relic by an ambitious young superstate, the fall of Constantinople in 1453 has resonated down the centuries. Following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Byzantium fought for survival for eight centuries until, by the mid-15th century, the emperor Constantine XI ruled a tiny handful of territories, an empire in name and tradition only. However, he had a powerful defensive weapon in the form of his capital, Constantinople, protected by an impregnable wall system, only ever breached twice. For the Turks in 1453, Constantinople was a fruit ripe for the picking, the conquest of which had been a dream of Islamic armies for many centuries. Mehmet ’The Conqueror’ led 80,000 men and a massive siege train against the city, which was defended by only 10,000 men. Despite the odds, the city held out for four months, falling only after the Turkish artillery flattened the walls. This beautifully illustrated book chronicles the history of Byzantium, the evolution of the defences of Constantinople and the epic siege up to the breaching of the great walls and the death of the last Emperor, which heralded the birth of the Ottoman Empire in its fully developed form." | ||||||||||||