OTD, 29th May 1453, Constantinople, hier to a 2000 year Roman empire fell.
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Throughout history, many such great empires and civilizations have come & gone. Wonder if future generations will look back at our time/2025 as years of significance...
“On the twenty-ninth of May, the last day of the siege, our Lord God decided, to the sorrow of the Greeks, that He was willing for the city to fall on this day into the hands of Mahomet Bey the Turk son of Murat”
-Nicolo Barbaro, a Venetian source for the fall of Constantinople.