Major conflict1453

Siege of Constantinople (1453)

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Constantinople · Ottoman Empire

Estimated casualties

50Ksingle estimate · no range published

Fall of Constantinople ending Byzantine Empire and establishing Ottoman control.

Belligerents2

Ottoman Empire
Byzantine Empire

ON THE MAPOttoman EmpireByzantine Empire (Palaiologan, 1350-1453)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Siege of Constantinople (1453) (1453). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/siege-of-constantinople-1453 · Sources & methodology