The Byzantine Empire, 330–1453: The Roman Empire’s Eastern Chronicle | Calm Bedtime History
On 29 May 1453, before sunrise, Ottoman guns and soldiers gathered beneath the walls of Constantinople. Inside the city, the last Roman emperor and a small defending force waited among churches, cisterns, warehouses, and streets that had served as an imperial capital since Constantine dedicated the city in 330.
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