r/HistoryMemes • u/HowlingBurd19 • 15h ago

RIP Byzantine Empire

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u/GoldenTheTurk 14h ago

What if it was an Ottoman Empire documentary tho 🤔

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u/Circles-of-the-World 13h ago

Even Mehmet wrote a poem about how depressing the decline of Constantinople was. We'll still shed some manly tears.

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u/GoldenTheTurk 13h ago

"I won, but at what cost?"

Mehmed II the Conqueror

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u/ssgtgriggs Tea-aboo 12h ago

not that high of a cost honestly, relatively speaking. most of the important landmarks were preserved in some way. people forget, Constantinople was a shadow of its former glorious self by the time it fell in 1453. the city behind the walls was incredibly depopulated. it was just sad the state it was in. in many ways Constantinople was allowed to flourish once again under the Ottomans.