The Ottoman Turks in 1453 AD.
Ottoman Turks.
The Ottoman Empire defeated The Byzantine Empire on May 29,1453
The Byzantine Empire had been growing steadily smaller and weaker for centuries, but it was finally defeated altogether by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
Assyria conquered Israel, then Babylon conquered Assyria and Judah, then Persia conquered Babylon, then the Seuclid Empire conquered Judah, then the Judeans revolted, then Rome conquered Judah, then the Islamic Caliphate conquered the Byzantine Empire (the remains of the Roman Empire). The Ottoman Empire conquered Judah from the Cusaders who had conquered it from its Islamic rulers. Then the British Empire took it from the Ottomans.
Mehemed the second of the Ottoman empire
constantinople
The Ottoman Empire conquered Greece in the 1400s.
The city of Ravenna was conquered by the Byzantine Empire in 540. This city served as a base for their further conquests in to Italy.
Barbarians did not weaken the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine Empire was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that continued to thrive while its western counterpart ceased to exist due to Barbarian conquests. The Byzantine Empire was weakened and conquered by the Turks.
Asia Minor.
The Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453.
The Byzantine Empire lost Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and part of northern Iraq to the Arabs. It lost its lands in the Balkan Peninsula to the Slavs. It lost Turkey to the Seljuk Turks. It was brought to an end by the ottoman Turks who conquered its lands in Europe, including its Greek heartland, and finally conquered its capital, Constantinople.