Practice question · Numerical answer
In which year did Constantinople fall to the Ottoman forces of Mehmed II, ending the line of Roman emperors?
Hints
- It is a little over two centuries after the Latin Empire ended.
- Fourteen fifty-three.
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1453
Why
1453. Constantine XI died in the fighting and no successor was proclaimed, which makes this, rather than 476, the year an unbroken line of Roman emperors actually stops. The city had already been reduced to a fraction of its population by the sack of 1204 and the wars that followed.
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