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Fall of Constantinople

1453 Ottoman conquest of the Byzantine capitalBelligerentsOttoman EmpireSerbian DespotateByzantine EmpireRepublic of GenoaRepublic of VenicePapal StatesCrown of AragonKingdom of SicilyKingdom of FranceVarangian GuardOrhan Çelebi loyalistsCommanders and leadersMehmed IIHalil Pasha Zagan PashaSuleiman Baltoghlu (WIA)Karaca PashaHamza BeyMahmud PashaUlubatlı Hasan †Hadım ŞehabeddinConstantine XI †Loukas Notaras Theophilos Palaiologos †Demetrios Kantakouzenos Andronikos Kantakouzenos Giovanni Giustiniani (DOW)Gabriele Trevisano (POW)Alviso Diedo (WIA)Gabriele Orsini del Balzo †Cardinal Isidore (POW)Johannes Grant †Orhan Çelebi StrengthLand forces: 100,000 soldiers in total, including:75,000 regulars20,000 irregulars5,000 JanissariesNaval forces:31 galleys95 large row boatsUnknown but large amount of Non-combatantsLand forces: Less than 8,000 soldiers in total, including:5,000 Byzantine soldiers2,000 Western soldiers600 Orhan Çelebi loyalists200 Catalan retinue200 Cretan archersNaval forces:26 ships10 Byzantine8 Venetian5 Genoese1 Catalan1 Anconitan1 ProvençalCasualties and losses Heavy Heavy 4,000 Byzantine civilians killed550+ Venetian civilians killed30,000 enslaved or soldConstantinople, the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, was captured by the Ottoman Empire on 29 May 1453 as part of the culmination of a 53-day siege which had begun on 6 April.

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