Turkey: With New Film About Conquest of Constantinople, It's like 1453 All Over Again
February 16, 2012 - 4:25pm, by Yigal Schleifer
Considering it took place some 500 years ago, the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 feels like it happened only yesterday -- at least in Istanbul. In recent years, an Ottoman history magazine titled "1453" has been introduced, a municipal museum called "Panorama 1453" has opened, and increasingly lavish commemorations and reenactments of the Ottomans' victory over the Byzantines are being put on.
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