Istanbul in the Ottoman Golden Age
You're Dead to Me
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Byzantium - The Fall of the a Mighty City
The capture of the a city by memi the second as the conqueror, on 20 ninth may 14 53, was without doubt, seen by many contemporaries as cataclysmic event. For the byzantines, it was the end of the world as they knew it. And for those from the west, it represented a terrifying outoman success, which threatened their own states various contemporary accounts refer to rivers of blood that flowed through the city,. with corpses floating out to sea like melons along a canop this is got quite dark quite quickly.
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