The Ottomans took over Constantinople or what Hungary is today.
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The Ottoman Empire was responsible for capturing Constantinople and effectively ending the Byzantine Empire in 1453. Led by Sultan Mehmed II, the Ottomans successfully besieged the city, utilizing advanced military tactics and artillery. This conquest marked a significant turning point in history, solidifying Ottoman control over the region and transforming Constantinople into Istanbul, the new capital of the empire.
Constantinople was taken over by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
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Kemal Attaturk. But many Europeans knew it is Constantinople for vmany years after the change. - I grew up with Constantinople in the 1950s.
What comes closest to what you describe is the Ottoman Empire. However, the Ottomans did not conquer Rome and did not take over the whole of the Mediterranean. They defeated the Byzantine Empire by taking its capital, Constantinople. Byzantine Empire is the name historians use for the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The west had already fallen more than 1000 years earlier. Also note that the city of Rome itself had never been conquered by anyone. The Ottomans conquered the Middle East and North Africa. On the European shores of the Mediterranean they only took over Greece and Albania. Apart form this, Mediterranean Europe was not reached by the Ottomans.
Η Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία κατέκτησε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1453, νικώντας την Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία. Οι Οθωμανοί Τούρκοι κατέλαβαν την Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1453.
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