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Despite several military assaults on Constantinople itself, Ottoman efforts to wrest the capital from Byzantine control proved unsuccessful. According to an ancient belief popular with the inhabitants of the city, Constantinople would fall only when the moon gave a sign.
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The fall of Constantinople has long been regarded as a watershed event in world history. Indeed, it was to the vanquished Christian inhabitants of the city, as well as to the victorious Ottomans, who restored the metropolis to its former glory. Nevertheless, some claims about this event have not withstood careful scrutiny.
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Ignatius Mouradgra d'Ohsson was born in Constantinople and was a resident until March 1784. Not long thereafter he published one of his major works, the multi-volume Tableau General..., a compendium of Ottoman governmental, religious, and secular practices. These observations offer a detailed picture of the well-to-do of Constantinople in the second half of the 18th century. The first, folio, edition has the added attraction of many illustrations. Here is one of the rare instances of etchings which have good chance of being accurate, for the drawings in the d'Ohsson volumes were made on the spot by both Greek and European artists, particularly J. M. Moreau.
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P.366: The last military expression of the concert of Europe which had regulated the Continent since the defeat of of Napoleon (except during his nephew’s reign) could be seen on the streets of Constantinople in 1912-13. On 12 November with Ottoman permission, fourteen foreign warships carrying 2.700 sailors anchored in the Bosphorus to reassure the Christian population. On 16 November a delegation from the Armenian Patriarchate asked the embassies for protection. On 18 November, the sailors landed with machine guns. The French took up position in Galata, the British in Pera, Austrians and Germans in Taksim, and Russians along the quays.
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There are many legends in Greece surrounding the Fall of Constantinople. One of them holds that two priests saying divine liturgy over the crowd disappeared into the cathedral's walls as the first Turkish soldiers entered. According to the legend, the priests will appear again on the day Constantinople returns to Christian hands.[49] Another legend refers to the Marble King, Constantine XI, holding that, when the Ottomans entered the city, an angel rescued the emperor, turned him into marble and placed him in a cave under the earth near the Golden Gate, where he waits to be brought to life again (a variant of the sleeping hero legend).[50].[51]
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