The fall of Constantinople : the Ottoman conquest of Byzantium /
Byzantium was the last bastion of the Roman Empire following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It fought for survival for eight centuries until, in the mid-15th century, the emperor Constantine XI ruled just a handful of whittled down territories, an empire in name and tradition only. This lavis...
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Oxford ; New York :
Osprey,
2007
Oxford ; New York : 2007 |
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