Link to History's turning points: 1453 AD The siege of Constantinopla documentary
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1453 AD
In 1204 crusaders sacked the city, then renamed Constantinople. For the
next thousand years, the Byzantine Kings hid safely behind the massive
walls of Constantinople. Then in 1453, with the Turkish Ottoman Empire
encircling the city, Sultan Mehmet brought the newest technology of the
15th century, the cannon, and finally brought down the walls of the
world's most impregnable fortress.