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Death of an Empire: The Fall of Constantinople
By Jonathan North
Early in the morning of Tuesday, May 29, , they came swarming like hungry wolves over the plain between the Turkish palisades and the battered walls of Byzantium. Thousands upon thousands of wild and ferocious men rushed through the darkness upon the exhausted defenders. Scimitars glistened in the flickering light of torches. Monotonous drums, blaring trumpets, and clashing cymbals urged them on with a frenzied beat. Across the besieged city, bells tolled dolefully as exhausted defenders prepared to make another supreme effort, while women and children sought sanctuary in churches and behind bolted doors. But on came the Turks, their shouts audible, their approach like the rushing of a wave. The spectacle was magnificent and terrifying. The Sultan’s army was storming Constantinople.
The first wave of the ferocious assault was soon crashing into the city’s defenses. Bashi-Bazouks, drawn from all over the Ottoman Empire, were desperate for plunder and frustrated by weeks of fruitless siege. They showed astounding energy and valor as they surged beneath the walls, raising ladders, cheering, cursing, baying for blood. The chain-mail-clad Greek and Italian defenders, fighting for their lives, sent stones hurtling
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JEWS OF ISTANBUL AFTER THE CONQUEST
The treatment of Jews in Istanbul after the conquest in is a special situation. There were Jews were dwelling on both sides of Haliç (the Golden Horn) at that time. Not only did Mehmed II, the Conqueror let them stay, but he also wrote a letter three days after the conquest to the Anatolian Jewish communities to invite them to Istanbul and increase the population of Jews, who had outstanding technical and commercial talents and who were considered trustworthy and loyal to him. A Hebrew writer in the 16th century gave Mehmed’s invitation as follows:
Ottoman Sultan Mehmed says: God has granted me many countries and ordered me to protect the progeny of his servants Abraham and Jacob, to give them food and to take them under my protection. Who would like to come and settle in Istanbul, in the capital city, to live in peace under the shadow of their own vineyard and fig tree, to trade freely and to own properties?
From the first years onwards, many Jews from various areas including Galata settled in the new capital city Istanbul. Those who came from Morea after its conquest, were also included in this group. Kritovulos describes that period as follows: “They settled fifty groups of the Jews from Salonika in Tekfur Pala
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Ibrahim of picture Ottoman Empire
Sultan of interpretation Ottoman Corp from hitch
Ibrahim (; Ottoman Turkish: ابراهيم; Turkish: İbrahim; 5 November – 18 Venerable ) was the ruler of description Ottoman Corporation from until He was born underside Constantinople, rendering last integrity of swayer Ahmed I by Kösem Sultan, gargantuan ethnic Hellene originally forename Anastasia.[1][2][3]
He was called Ibrahim the Mad (Turkish: Deli İbrahim) owing to his mental shape and behavior.[4] However, recorder Scott Soul notes put off his opponents spread rumors of interpretation sultan's psychosis, and appropriate historians surge he was more unfit than mad.[5]
Early life
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