This episode begins season two of the animated documentary series on the rise of the Ottoman Empire. After conquering Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans began reshaping the city into their ...

The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1299. It achieved its greatest military victory in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople. This ended the thousand-year history of the Eastern Roman Empire and ...

The Ottoman Empire. Share ... England has not hesitated to wage war in defence of Ottoman independence, and to procure loan after loan for the accommodation of the Government at Constantinople; ...

By the early 16th century, the Ottoman empire had one of the largest Jewish communities in the word. Constantinople, the city wasn’t officially renamed Istanbul until 1930, became a real blend ...

100 years ago, Ottoman Empire sealed its fate With German-inspired attack on Russian cities, Ottoman Empire ensured its own demise. 29.10.2014 - Update : 15.10.2015 ...

The players are present-day Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), the ancient Greek port and imperial capital of two enormous, ...

It’s also worth mentioning that, after conquering Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans saw themselves as the rightful heirs to the Western Roman Empire and upheld its customs and splendor until the ...

A chronology of key events: 1453 - Sultan Mehmed II captures Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and consolidating Ottoman Empire in Asia Minor and Balkans. 15th-16th Centuries - The ...

They resisted an Ottoman naval attack in 1442, and when Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople on May 29, 1453, ending the Eastern Roman Empire, Trebizond sought help from France, which ignored them ...

The pattern was repeated at the second Ottoman capital in Edirne, and then at Constantinople (today’s Istanbul, captured in 1453 by a mixed Muslim-Christian army under Mehmet the Conqueror ...

A hundred years ago, the Ottoman Empire slipped into the mists of history. A mighty realm that had survived for centuries and straddled three continents had reached the end of the road, ceasing to ...

This ambitious cross-cultural exhibition examines the complex links between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire from 1400 to 1800 in artistic, culinary, diplomatic, economic, political ...