In Turkey, the 570th anniversary of the conquest of Istanbul.
The capture of the city on the banks of the Bosphorus, whose history has no millennium, has become one of the turning points in world history.
Sultan Mehmet the second, which ascended the throne as the seventh ruler of the Ottoman state, set himself the goal of winning the capital of the Byzantine Empire. The 21-year-old Sultan developed a siege plan of the city from the sea and land. Special guns were cast, capable of destroying the fortress walls, and the preparation of the fleet was accelerated, after which the troops approached the walls of Istanbul.
The city siege lasted from April 6 to May 29, 1453.
at about three in the morning on May 29, the Sultan ordered the last assault. Byzantine emperor Konstantin Paleologist was killed.
The very impregnable fortress of the Middle Ages fell before the troops of the Sultan, whom they began to call Mehmet the conqueror.
The conquest of Istanbul put an end to the existence of a thousand -year -old Byzantine Empire.
May 29, 1453, Sultan Mehmet, the second, accompanied by a close environment, solemnly drove into Istanbul.