Ottoman Empire 1453

The capital of the eastern roman empire constantinople was conquered by the ottoman army under the command ottoman sultan mehmed ii on 29th may 1453.

Ottoman empire 1453. After the constantinople conquest 21 years old ottoman sultan ii. The city fell on 29 may 1453 the culmination of a 53 day siege which had begun on 6 april 1453. The ottoman empire began at the very end of the 13th century with a series of raids from turkic warriors known as ghazis led by osman i a prince whose father ertugrul had established a power base in söğüt near bursa turkey osman and his warriors took advantage of a declining seljuq dynasty which had been severely weakened by the mongol invasions. According to whom the foundation era covers the years between 1300 byzantine expedition and 1453 conquest of constantinople the classical period covers the years between 1451 second enthronement of sultan mehmed ii and 1606 peace of zsitvatorok the reformation period covers the years between.

This put an end to 1 000 year reign of the byzantine empire. The ottoman empire s early years have been the subject of varying narratives due to the difficulty of discerning fact from legend. The ottoman conquest of constantinople in 1453 by mehmed ii cemented the status of the empire as the preeminent power in southeastern europe and the eastern mediterranean. Fall of constantinople may 29 1453 conquest of constantinople by sultan mehmed ii of the ottoman empire the dwindling byzantine empire came to an end when the ottomans breached constantinople s ancient land wall after besieging the city for 55 days.

The attacking ottoman army which significantly outnumbered constantinople s defenders. The young ottoman sultan mehmet ii and his armies began their siege on easter monday april 2 1453. The history of the military of the ottoman empire can be divided in five main periods. The ottoman turks swiftly conquered the lands in the near east until eventually constantinople was reduced essentially just to its city limits a capital without its empire.

The empire came into existence at the end of the thirteenth century and its first ruler and the namesake of the empire was osman i according to later often unreliable ottoman tradition osman was a descendant of the kayı tribe of the oghuz turks. Conquest of istanbul was the capture of the byzantine empire s capital by the ottoman empire. Osman s name in turn was the turkish form of the arabic name ʿuthmān عثمان. After taking constantinople mehmed met with the orthodox patriarch gennadios and worked out an arrangement in which the orthodox church in exchange for being able to.

The word ottoman is a historical anglicisation of the name of osman i the founder of the empire and of the ruling house of osman also known as the ottoman dynasty. Mehmed surrounded constantinople from land and sea while employing cannon to maintain a constant barrage of the city s formidable walls.