The Fall of Constantinople

[Newtheran]

A massive Muslim Turkish force assaults the most important Christian city of the medieval world, with the future of all Christendom at stake.

Shields High Episode #3 "The Fall of Constantinople, Part 1" from The Buck Sexton Show

Shields High Ep. #4 "The Fall of Constantinople, Part 2" from The Buck Sexton Show

About an hour's worth of audio between Part 1 and Part 2 of the recordings. A story all Christians should be familiar with.
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[Petros2015]

Very cool, I'll have to check that out, I've read a book that covered it before. A massive custom built cannon one of the first of it's kind was brought in to break the walls. That city lasted over 1,000 years and sustained multiple sieges. It is said it was the inspiration for Minas Tirith in Tolkein's Lord of the Rings.

Fall of Constantinople - Wikipedia

The Fall of Constantinople (Greek: Ἅλωσις τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, Halōsis tēs Kōnstantinoupoleōs; Turkish: İstanbul'un Fethi Conquest of Istanbul) was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by an invading Ottoman army on 29 May 1453. The attackers were commanded by the 21-year-old Sultan Mehmed II, who defeated an army commanded by Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos and took control of the imperial capital, ending a 53-day siege that began on 6 April 1453. After conquering the city, Sultan Mehmed transferred the capital of his Empire from Edirne to Constantinople, and established his court there.

The capture of the city (and two other Byzantine splinter territories soon thereafter) marked the end of the Byzantine Empire, a continuation of the Roman Empire, an imperial state dating to 27 BCE, which had lasted for nearly 1,500 years.[3] The 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.

It was also a watershed moment in military history. Since ancient times, cities had used ramparts and city walls to protect themselves from invaders, and Constantinople's substantial fortifications had been a model followed by cities throughout the Mediterranean region and Europe. The Ottomans ultimately prevailed due to the use of gunpowder (which powered formidable cannons).[4]

The conquest of the city of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire[5] was a key event in the Late Middle Ages which also marks, for some historians, the end of the Medieval period.[6]

 

[prodromos]

Something not many people realise, when people spoke of Constantinople, they often simply referred to it as "the City". This is actually very common and we do the same today if we happen to live near a large city. We don't need to refer to it by its name since people living within the same context implicitly understand which "city" we are talking about.
So if someone was going to Constantinople they would say they were going "to the City", which in Greek is "εις την πόλη" (ees tin poly). In Greek speech, an "n" followed by a "p" was naturally pronounced more as a "b", so it doesn't take a linguist to recognise that what the Turks call "Constantinople" today is simply how they heard the Greeks refer to it.

Εις την πόλη --> Istanbul

 

[Petros2015]

In Greek speech, an "n" followed by a "p" was naturally pronounced more as a "b", so it doesn't take a linguist to recognise that what the Turks call "Constantinople" today is simply how they heard the Greeks refer to it.

Never knew that - interesting!