The Nicaean fleet and army conquered and occupied Constantinople, causing the collapse of the Latin Empire of Constantinople less than sixty years after its creation.

The bishops were dependent on the Patriarch of Constantinople until the 10th century.

The siege of the city began in the winter of 1452.

From Constantinople he travelled to the Holy Land via Alexandria and Cairo.

Cantacuzene led the remaining Byzantine soldiers back to Constantinople by sea.

The declaration by Egypt reaffirmed its adherence to the terms and spirit of the Constantinople Convention.

The Byzantine Empire collapsed when Mehmed II conquered Constantinople on 29 May, 1453.

In 1453, Ottoman armies, under Sultan Mehmed II, conquered Constantinople.

The Imperial Library of Constantinople, in the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, was the last of the great libraries of the ancient world.

This is a declaration made by the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt in accordance with the Constantinople Convention of 1888 .

In this period the presence of Calabrian humanists as well as refugees from Constantinople was fundamental.

As a result, in December 1321 Syrgiannes switched support to the old emperor, fleeing to Constantinople.

Arriving in Constantinople towards the end of 1332 (or 1334), he met the Greek emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos.

In 1038, the Byzantine general George Maniakes reconquered the city, sending the relics of St. Lucy to Constantinople.

Thomas's 821 siege of Constantinople did not get past the city walls, and he was forced to retreat.

In the 12th century the Pisan quarter in the Eastern part of Constantinople had grown to 1,000 people.

The new Emperor was immediately forced to attend to the Second Arab siege of Constantinople, which commenced in August of the same year.

Leo the Wise died in 912, and hostilities soon resumed as Simeon marched to Constantinople at the head of a large army.

After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 and the Siege of Belgrade, the Serbian Despotate fell in 1459 following the siege of the provisional capital of Smederevo.

With France as intermediary, the two governments signed a treaty in Constantinople on June 12 1724, dividing a large portion of Persia between them.

The West responded with the Crusades, eventually resulting in the Sack of Constantinople by participants in the Fourth Crusade.

The first Turkish ruler to reign over the Ecumenical Patriarchate was Mehmed II, the Ottoman Sultan who conquered Constantinople in 1453.

The Empire now faced the problem of a powerful Christian state within a few days' marching distance from Constantinople, as well as having to fight on two fronts.

It also promised to maintain free and uninterrupted navigation for all nations within the limits of and in accordance with the provisions of the Constantinople Convention of 1888.

Under the Macedonian emperors, the city of Constantinople flourished, becoming the largest and wealthiest city in Europe, with a population of approximately 400,000 in the 9th and 10th centuries.

Then, the third governor of Africa, Zuheir, was overthrown by a powerful army, sent from Constantinople by Constantine IV for the relief of Carthage.

The States members of the Suez Canal Users' Association continued to use the Canal in accordance with the 1888 Convention, sidestepping the question of the validity of the Egyptian declaration.

Development First known in the early Christian period, in particular North Africa at Chlef and Djemila in Algeria, and Byzantium at Saint John Studio in Constantinople.

After the Fall of Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire entered a long period of conquest and expansion with its borders eventually going deep into Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.

The rediscovery of ancient scientific texts was accelerated after the Fall of Constantinople, and the invention of printing which would democratize learning and allow a faster propagation of new ideas.

The rediscovery of ancient scientific texts was accelerated after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, and the invention of printing which would democratize learning and allow a faster propagation of new ideas.

The Treaty of Sèvres (10 August 1920) followed the armistice, but this treaty was never ratified due to the Turkish victory at the Turkish War of Independence.

The former summoned councils in Rome to anathematize and excommunicate the iconoclasts (730, 732) In 740 Leo retaliated by transferring Southern Italy and Illyricum from the papal diocese to that of the Patriarch of Constantinople.

The Pussy Riot trial was, of course, a travesty of justice, with the prosecution quoting the canons of the Quinisext Council, which took place in Constantinople in 692, under Byzantine Emperor Justinian II.

He came to Constantinople, led an ascetic life in one of its monasteries, then came back to his fatherland before spending some time in the region of Antioch, then back in Lycia.

He is one of about 40 authors represented in a compendium of alchemical writings that was probably put together in Byzantium (Constantinople) in the 7th or 8th century AD and that exists in manuscripts in Venice and Paris.

According to the Jacobite book of saints, he remained 20 years in Constantinople, went back home after the death of his parents, spent some time in Seleucia and in Antioch before reaching Lycia.

Unable to continue the siege in the face of the Bulgarian onslaught, the impenetrability of Constantinople's walls, and their own exhausted provisions, the Arabs were forced to abandon the siege in August, 718.

In 1054, after centuries of strained relations, the Great Schism occurred over differences in doctrine, splitting the Christian world between the Catholic Church, centered in Rome and dominant in the West, and the Orthodox Church, centered in Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.

Edirne (Adrianople) was the Ottoman capital between 1365 and 1453, when Istanbul (Constantinople) became the new capital, and it is here that we witness the final stages in the architectural development which culminated in the construction of the great mosques of Istanbul.

The tower was largely destroyed by the Latin Crusaders during the Sack of Constantinople in 1204, part of the Fourth Crusade, enabling them to enter the harbor and attack the city from the sea, where the walls were more easily scaled.

In 1424 he left the Holy Roman Empire, meeting first with Murad II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, on the island of Patmos, and then continuing to Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire the hopeless position of the city against the Ottoman onslaught didn't fail to impress him.

The Habsburg Monarchy entered the war in 1737 on the Russian side, but was forced to make peace with Ottomans at the separate Treaty of Belgrade, surrendering Northern Serbia, Northern Bosnia and Oltenia, and allowing the Ottomans to resist the Russian push toward Constantinople.

The Greek government was desperate to get some military support by the British or at least secure a loan, so it developed an ill thought plan to force diplomatically the British, by threatening their positions in Constantinople, but this never materialised.

After their victory at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the Ottomans had conquered most of the Balkans, and had reduced the Byzantine Empire to the area immediately surrounding Constantinople, which they later proceeded to besiege (in 1390, 1395, 1397, 1400, 1411, 1422 and finally conquering the Byzantine capital in 1453).