The Ottoman Empire, from the Frontier Principality to the End of the Sultanate, c. 1299–1922 | Calm Bedtime History
In the spring of 1453, Ottoman ships entered the Golden Horn after being hauled overland around its harbour chain. From the walls of Constantinople, the Byzantine capital, the city watched Mehmed II's army close in; six centuries earlier, the dynasty had begun on the Anatolian frontier.
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