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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

1453 saw the Christian health city of Constantinople fall to the Ottoman Turks, bringing more than a millennium of Byzantine rule to a dramatic close, and heralding

the rise of the Ottoman Empire. But what caused this seismic moment? And how exactly did the

attack on the city play out? Well, together with Emily Griffith, in today's episode, Professor

Jonathan Harris journeys back to the 15th century to unravel

how the Byzantine capital was seized and explore the ramifications of this event,

which go right up to the modern day.

Today we are going to be tracing the story of the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

But I want to go back before that moment in time.

If we were to visit the city of Constantinople in the years leading up to that pivotal year,

what would the city have been like?

Well, if you'd visited it in the years before

1453, the few decades beforehand, you might have been a bit disappointed because its great days

were past. Many of its fine buildings are actually in ruins. We have travellers accounts,

which say, you know, there was this wonderful monastery, which would have

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