The Siege of Constantinople

The siege of constan nople is one of those historical events that has been told and retold countless times, and its events have passed into legend. I want to focus here on what it must have felt like to be a normal person living in the city of constantinople during this siege. During the siege, prayers were held daily in the hagia sophia. The austere, sombre chanting of the byzantine monks soaring out over the imprisoned peopleof city. rolling thunder of cannon fire would have sounded outside the walls like a storm. When the wind blew towards the city, there must have been a constant smell of gunpowder in the streets from the turkish

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