The Fall of Constantinople Author:Nanami Shiono The Roman Empire did not meet its end when barbarians sacked the City of Seven Hills, but rather a thousand years later with the fall of Constantinople, capital of the surviving Eastern Empire. The Ottoman Turks who conquered the city aslo known to us as Byzantium would force a tense centruy of conflict in the Mediterranean culminating in the fa... more »mous Battle of Lepanto. The first book in a triptych depicting this monumental confrontation between a Muslim empire and Christendom, The Fall of Constantinople brilliantly captures a defning moment in the two creeds' history too often eclipsed by the Crusades.« less
ISBN-13: 9781932234176 ISBN-10: 1932234179 Publication Date: 7/1/2005 Pages:236 Edition:New title Reading Level: Young Adult Rating: