Sultan Mehmet II, el-Fatih.
Constantinople was taken over by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
Turks took Constantinople on May 29th 1453.
Kemal Attaturk. But many Europeans knew it is Constantinople for vmany years after the change. - I grew up with Constantinople in the 1950s.
Yes, yes it was. Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople. (I highly doubt it will ever go back. Constantinople got the works, and it was no one's business but the Turks.) On May 29th, 1453, Byzantium (Greek)- which was then Constantinople (Roman), was captured by the Turkish Sultan Mahmud II. then it became Constantinople.
The Ottoman Turks
In 1453, the Ottoman Empire invaded and took over Constantinople, changing the name to Istanbul, among other things. Istanbul became the third capital city of the Ottoman Empire, and became an Islamic city, rather than a Roman one.
The Byzantine Empire fell when the capital city of Constantinople, now Istanbul, was captured by the Turks in 1453. The Turks took Constantinople as their new capital, and the territories of the Byzantine Empire then became part of the Ottoman Empire.
Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantines Empire, was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. No one country took over the Ottoman empire. The Ottoman Empire lost Algeria and Tunisia to the French in 1830 and 1881, Egypt to the British in 1879 and Libya to the Italians in 1912. The empire collapsed when it lost the First World War. The British took over Iraq, Jordan and Palestine. The French took over Syria and Lebanon.
When The Crusades conquered the city in 1204, and again in 1453 By The Ottoman Turks.
the Ottoman Turks.
Constantinople was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.