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  • targets and, over time, easily demolished. In 1453, the great walls of Constantinople were broken through in just six weeks by the 62 cannon of Ottoman ...
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  • exchange for a castle in Varambon, France in 1453. Louis of Savoy, the new owner, stored it in his capital at Chambery in the newly built Saint-Chapelle ...
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  • The Fall of Constantinople in 1453, and the subsequent fall of Trebizond (Greek: Trapezous or Trapezounda) and Mystras in 1461, marked the end ...
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  • example used at the siege of Constantinople in 1453 massed 19 tons, took 200 men and sixty oxen to emplace and could fire seven times a day. ...
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  • bmj.com/cgi/content/full/313/7070/1453#R101 "Not a slippery slope or sudden subversion: German medicine and National Socialism in 1933" ...
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  • Ottoman Turks, who conquered Constantinople in 1453. By 1541, the entire Balkan Peninsula and most of Hungary became Ottoman provinces. In contrast, ...
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  • Empire, at the hands of the Ottomans, in 1453, when the Byzantine period is considered to have ended. ===Ottoman rule=== Most of Greece was part ...
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  • duration of the Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453). In fact the English crown did not relinquish its last foothold on mainland France until Calais ...
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  • France and England, lasting 116 years from 1337 to 1453. It was fought primarily over claims by the English kings to the French throne. On the death ...
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  • The last centuries of Byzantium, 1261–1453 |author=Donald MacGillivray ... Edirne), which became their new capital until 1453. Fine|1994|pp=377–378 ...
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