The Fall of Constantinople
Nanami Shiono, "The Fall of Constantinople "
English | ISBN: 1932234179 | 2005 | 236 pages | AZW3 | 1271 KB
English | ISBN: 1932234179 | 2005 | 236 pages | AZW3 | 1271 KB
The Roman Empire did not meet its end when barbarians sacked the City of Seven Hills, but rather a thousand years later with the fall of Constantinople, capital of the surviving Eastern Empire. The Ottoman Turks who conquered the city aslo known to us as Byzantium would force a tense centruy of conflict in the Mediterranean culminating in the famous Battle of Lepanto. The first book in a triptych depicting this monumental confrontation between a Muslim empire and Christendom, The Fall of Constantinople brilliantly captures a defning moment in the two creeds' history too often eclipsed by the Crusades.