"Woe be to thee, O Constantinople, seated on seven hills, thou shall not continue a thousand years" What made the majority of people in Constantinople believe in prophecies saying that the city would not last forever and that they are doomed? In the years before the Turkish conquest it was known that the reign of anti- Christ could not long be delayed. What made the proud people and ancestors of the Roman Empire lose all hope and will to react? After withstanding 22 previous sieges, the first in 340 BC and the last in 1437 AD, the Ottoman army entered into the capital which Constantine had found as the heart of the Christian Empire. After three days of plundering that caused the city a misfortune comparable only to the fall of Carthage, the Sultan entered the c....

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