"Woe Be To Thee, O Constantinople, Seated On Seven Hills, Thou Shall Not Continue A Thousand Years"

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from attacks and raids. In spite of being for more than 1000
years the unconquerable and surely the wealthiest city, it stood on the
crossroads of the East and the West which proved to be an incessant source
of troubles, always being entangled in the interests of foreign peoples. It
was the conveyor of eastern and roman culture, the most significant
commercial and religious center and it can undoubtedly regarded as the
heart of a civilization incredibly contributed to the mankind. A bastion of
orthodox Christianity, it was conquered by the Crusaders--the "defenders"
of Christianity, and this colossal blow on it was one of the main causes
for the fall of the Empire under the fanatic and irresistible powe r of the
Ottoman Turks. Lead by the zeal of their religion and the skillful
leadership of Sultan Mehmed II they succeeded in subduing Constantinople
after a fierce siege. The mightiness of the noble city, however, has faded
long before that conquest. It had started at the end of the ...

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1453 is viewing it from the angle of the political consequences of the
Latin Conquest and fall of the city in 1204. According to Sir Edwin Pears
the capture of Constantinople was the necessary prelude to the Ottoman
Conquest and it was the cause that brought about the fall of the Roman
Empire in the East.

Being the strongest defense against Asia, the Byzantine Empire received a
tremendous blow from the Latin conquest. The main forces of the East Empire
were spent withstanding the Asian hordes which were pushed by the Tartar
immigration westward. It was continuously weakened by the fight on two
fronts. From the North it had for years to resist the constant blows of
Bulgarians, ...

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