1453: The thousand-year Byzantine Empire finally ended. The conquering Ottomans founded an empire that was to last half as long. Constantinople was the most heavily fortified city on the planet. But the centuries had worn both walls down and the inhabitants’ spirit. The Turks, on the other hand, had occupied the main part of modern Turkey (Asia Minor) since 1300 and they were in a conquering mood.
With the fall of Constantinople, the path of conquest into and through the Balkans had been opened wide. The opportunity for the Muslims to invade and conquer the heart of Europe would be exploited for centuries to the climatic siege of Vienna in 1683.
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