15 April 1453 · Asia · Europe
Fall of Constantinople
In 1453 the Ottoman army of Mehmed II enclosed Constantinople, the last great city of the eastern Roman state, and attacked its land walls. The siege ended the medieval Roman capital on the Bosporus.
Commanders
- Mehmed II · General
- Date
- 15 April 1453
- Place
- Constantinople · Turkey
- Region
- Asia · Europe