The Fall of Constantinople - Steven Runciman;

Category: Adults, Documentary, History
Language: EnglishKeywords: Conquest Of Constantinople By The Ottoman Turks
Written by Steven Runciman;
Read by Charlton Griffin
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Release date: 2000
Duration 7:37
Publisher: Audio Connoisseur
Few events have riveted the imagination or wrung the heart as did the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. With its passage into the hands of the Ottoman Empire, European history entered a new era and Byzantine Civilization disappeared forever. Although Constantinople had been under constant pressure from Muslim incursions for over seven centuries, its fall came as a bitter shock to the West.
Release date: 2000
Duration 7:37
Publisher: Audio Connoisseur

Few events have riveted the imagination or wrung the heart as did the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. With its passage into the hands of the Ottoman Empire, European history entered a new era and Byzantine Civilization disappeared forever. Although Constantinople had been under constant pressure from Muslim incursions for over seven centuries, its fall came as a bitter shock to the West.