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A:Islam had been unable to overrun Constantinople for centuries, until Mehmed II 'the Conqueror' finally conquered Constantinople in 1453, using gunpowder weapons.

Constantinople had over four hundred thousand Christians in 1920, but has perhaps only four thousand today. The city's final Greek remnants largely vanished during a sweeping race riot in 1955.

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