Mehmed II takes Constantinople after a fifty-three-day siege; the Byzantine Empire ends, and the Orthodox world passes under Ottoman rule.
Tagged: Christian Eastern Orthodox
The Event
- Date
- 1453 (exact)
- Also called
- Conquest of Constantinople (1453)
- Era
- Medieval; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Constantinople; today Istanbul, Turkey
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Eastern Orthodox
- Key figures
- Mehmed II, Constantine XI
Connections
- Great Schism; followed
Primary Sources
- Nicolò Barbaro, Diary of the Siege
- Kritovoulos, History of Mehmed the Conqueror
Secondary Sources
- Pelikan, The Christian Tradition, vols. 1–5 (Chicago, 1971–1989)
- MacCulloch, A History of Christianity (Allen Lane, 2009)
Provenance: HIST-0031; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-26.
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