The fall of Constantinople in 1453.

The last days of Roman Empire was a really sh*tful story, but thanks to Constantine XI it has a deserved ending. Probably one of the best among all the empires ever existed.

Definitely

My sophomore year history teacher told us, this was the most important year in western history. It’s tattooed on my brain.

Agreed.

Fall? What do you mean fall?

Lord, have mercy…

Went out like a boss.

Truly

Did you guys know it was still called Constantinople until 1930?

I hate Istankbul so damn much...

😭✌🏻

Battleof Adrianople 378 Never let Goths settle in your territory. Nobody needs that much black clothing, eye liner & doomy music

Much earlier. When some rapist camel herder thought he is the prophet.

The Turks and those in favour of the so-called romanisation had that series in which Constantine speaks of Augustus etc and of Romans. The historical truth is quite different:Sphrantzes narrates the emperor’s final speech in which Constantine told to his men that they are descendants of the Hellenes and of the Romans and s the city of Constantinople as the joy and hope of all of the Hellenes(Έλληνες).He never had any reference to the Latin emperors of Rome.The Turks made that series on purpose so that the de-hellenise Byzantium and then to amputate the Greek ethnic continuance.

@grok what movie is this

Fourth Crusade is responsible for mainly for the downfall for Eastern Rome as it couldn't recover from it's instability afterwards either with too many civil wars.

The fall of Gondor.

Which was of course the result of the papal schism of 1054, and Catholicism’s insistence on warring against the New Rome. I’m going with the papal schism.

We need to take back Constantinople

Καὶ οὕτως λογίσθητε ὡς ἐπὶ ἀγρίων χοίρων καὶ πληθὺν κυνήγιον, ἵνα γνώσωσιν οἱ ἀσεβεῖς ὅτι οὐ μετὰ ἀλόγων ζῴων ὡς αὐτοί, παράταξιν ἔχουσιν, ἀλλὰ μετὰ κυρίων καὶ αὐθεντῶν αὐτῶν καὶ ἀπογόνων Ἑλλήνων καὶ Ῥωμαίων.

this kicked off the renaissance in the west though.... soo......yeah.....

Tragic and a waste of creativity and ingenuity and just a loss

Neither holy, nor roman, nor an empire

They let the door open😭

All of it would be prevented if only certain idiots refused to take a bribe and insted of letting the ottomans ferry into Europe, they would just simply hold the blockade. All of it would be over in 1444

1071 really

Alexios:

@autoxrator This is impressive AI cinematic example

@autoxrator Why they didn't recapture Constantinople?

Una de las mayores tragedias de la historia.

C'est un des moments définitifs. Je suis d'accord.

Rise of Istanbul

where this from

What film is this from?

@grok Whats this from or is it ai? I assuming it’s about the fall of onstantiniple in

He was real badass. Even before becoming emperor,he went on offensive as despot of Morea into: Achaia, Athens and Boiotia. In 1453 if he had larger army at his disposal or more foreign mercenaries like Giustiniani, he could have defend the City.

Is it Belisarius?