Quotes About 1453

Looking down on the scene in the spring of 1453 one would also be able to make out the fortified Genoese town of Galata, a tiny Italian city state on the far side of the Horn, and to see exactly where Europe ends.

At dawn on May 25, 1453, the bells of Constantinople's churches rang out an urgent appeal.

The global spice trade underwent an upheaval in 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Turks