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In what year did Constantinople fall to the Ottomans, ending the Byzantine Empire?
Constantinople fell on 29 May 1453 to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II after a 53-day siege. The last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, died fighting at the walls. 1204 is the Fourth Crusade sack of Constantinople (the city was recovered in 1261); 1517 is Luther's 95 Theses; 1648 is the Peace of Westphalia.
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The Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire was the eastern continuation of the Roman Empire, centred on Constantinople, that survived the fall of the western Roman Empire in 476 AD and continued for almost a thousand years thereafter, until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It preserved Roman law, Greek learning, and Orthodox Christianity through the European Middle Ages.
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