It was originally the city of Constantinople until it was overun by the Turks in 1453
The Ottomans began their final siege of the city of Constantinople on 2 April 1453, attacking in waves. On 29 May 1453 the Ottomans, under the command of Sultan Mehmed II, conquered Constantinople. The city was renamed Istanbul, and it remained capital of the Ottoman Empire until the empire's dissolution in 1922.
It remained Constantinople for many centuries after the Ottoman invasion on 1453 AD. It was not renamed Istanbul until 1923.
Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
Constantinople was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
The Fall of Constantinople was in 1453 C.E. or 1453 A.D. (not B.C.E. or B.C.).
Constantinople fell the The Ottoman Turks in 1453.
The book 1453, Constantinople The Last Great Siege was written by Roger Crowley. It is a non-fiction book telling the story of the siege of the great city of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in the year 1453.
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The occupation of Greece from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottoman empire until Greece's Independence in 1824.