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The 64 pages that link to Fall of Constantinople, each with the reason it gives.

• Ottoman EmpireBroader topic: The city’s capture made the Ottomans a major imperial power and a new capital.

• Byzantine EmpireBroader topic: The city’s fall ended the empire’s continuous political existence.

• Roman EmpireBroader topic: It supplies the conventional endpoint for the empire’s long eastern continuation.

• ConstantinopleBroader topic: The conquest ended Byzantine rule and began the city’s Ottoman era.

• JanissaryBroader topic: Janissaries participated in the campaign that secured the new imperial capital.

• FortificationBroader topic: The siege demonstrated how large cannon could breach formidable medieval walls.

• Mehmed IIBroader topic: The defining campaign of Mehmed II’s reign made the city his imperial capital.

• Battle of NicopolisBroader topic: Nicopolis did not stop Ottoman expansion that culminated in the city’s conquest.

• Early modern periodBroader topic: This landmark is sometimes used to mark the transition from medieval to early modern history.

• Edward GibbonBroader topic: Gibbon’s narrative ultimately carries Roman history through Byzantium to this conquest.

• Eastern Roman EmpireBroader topic: The city’s capture ended the empire and redirected its institutions and scholars into new settings.

• Ottoman conquest of the BalkansBroader topic: It secured the imperial capital and strengthened Ottoman authority across the Balkans.

• Siege engineBroader topic: Large bombards battered walls that had resisted earlier siege technologies.

• Constantine XI PalaiologosBroader topic: Constantine XI died in the city’s final defense.

• Late Middle AgesBroader topic: The city’s capture marked a major political turning point near the period’s conventional close.

• Battle of BapheusBroader topic: It was the much later culmination of the expansion whose early momentum Bapheus helped establish.

• Varangian GuardBroader topic: The city’s conquest marks the endpoint of the imperial world that sustained the Guard.

• Byzantine Empire under the Palaiologos dynastyBroader topic: The conquest marks the final endpoint of Palaiologian rule.

• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireBroader topic: Gibbon extends his account beyond Rome’s western collapse to the eastern empire’s final defeat.

• History of gunpowderBroader topic: The siege illustrates the battlefield impact of massive gunpowder cannon.

• Ottoman wars in EuropeBroader topic: Its capture established Ottoman power on both sides of the Bosporus and opened further European campaigns.

• Classical Age of the Ottoman EmpireBroader topic: The conquest made the former Byzantine capital the center of Ottoman imperial rule.

• History of EuropeBroader topic: Its capture reshaped eastern Mediterranean power and is often treated as a major historical turning point.

• History of the Eastern Orthodox ChurchBroader topic: It ended imperial Byzantine patronage and changed the church’s political setting.

• History of the Ottoman EmpireBroader topic: The conquest ended Byzantine rule and made the city the Ottoman imperial capital.

• History of TurkeyBroader topic: The conquest made the city an Ottoman imperial center.

• Rise of the Ottoman EmpireBroader topic: The conquest fulfilled the rise’s defining milestone and made the city an imperial capital.