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Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire map.

__Synopsis of the events of invasion__
====   Ø Fall of Constantinople refers to capture of Byzantine Empire’s capital by Ottoman Empire ; May 29, 1453    ==== ====  Ø Marked the independence of the “millennium-old Byzantine Empire ”; was already divided into several Greek monarchies     ==== ====    Ø Constantine chose Byzantium as the new capital of the Byzantine Empire and renames it Constantinople. ==== ====    Ø Was captured and chosen to be the capital of the Ottoman Empire in 1204     ==== ====    Ø The Fourth Crusade was originally designed to conquer Muslim Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt    ====

Ø This is seen as one of the final acts in the Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church
====    Ø It has often been described as “one of the most profitable and disgraceful sacks of a city in history”. ====

2. Less protection from naval attacks
Where the Golden Horn once stood http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/TME1288.jpg

A former Eastern Orthodox Church in Constantinople http://www.turkeytravelresource.com/pub/article_images/EskiImaretCamii20070531_03.jpg