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Today, Istanbul is a city of Muslims. Before the mid-15th century, however, it was a Christian city of the Byzantine Empire called Constantinople. In 1453, Constantinople was conquered by Sultan ...
Charting the Turkish city's history through the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, the V&A claims that the show will be “the ...
Led by Fatih Sultan Mehmet at the age of 21, the conquest transformed Constantinople into the Ottoman capital, ushering in a new era of political, ...
On May 29, 1453, the ancient Roman city of Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. Many historians consider the event – and this day – as marking the end of the Middle Ages and the ...