The ruins of Byzantine culture in Constantinople in today's Istanbul remind the world of the great Byzantine Empire of ...
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Why Did the Crusaders Betray Constantinople

The destruction of the Byzantine Empire and its dramatic collapse under the weight of Mehmed the Conquerer’s spectacular invasion is not necessarily the first or only catastrophe staining the history ...
Constantinople, with ports on the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, was a city of 600,000 and the center of trade in the Old World when the harbor was built by Emperor Theodosius I. When the emperor ...