May 29, 1453 - Fall of Constantinople Resource Page

 

The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 

 

Historical Introduction to the Fall of Constantinople (Fr. George Metallinos)

 

Three Trends Before the Fall of Constantinople

 

The Causes of the Fall of Constantinople, According to Joseph Bryennios 

 

The Eve of the Fall of Constantinople 

 

The Funeral Oration of the Roman Empire Delivered on May 28, 1453 

 

29 May 1453: The City Has Fallen! A Lamenting Synaxarion of Constantine Palaiologos (Photios Kontoglou)  

 

Was Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos A Uniate? 

 

Contemporary Portrait of the Last Roman Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos Found in Greece

 

A Hymn For the Fall of Constantinople

 

Steven Runciman and the Fall of Constantinople  

 

May 29th - A Day of Repentance and a Day of Orthodoxy

 

An Ottoman Volunteer Defends Besieged Constantinople (1453) 

 

“The City Has Fallen": But Why? 

 

Why Constantinople Fell 

 

"The City Has Fallen", But It Also Lives (1 of 3) 

 

"The City Has Fallen", But It Also Lives (2 of 3) 

 

"The City Has Fallen", But It Also Lives (3 of 3) 

 

The Unenslaved Spirit of Romiosini (Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos) 

 

Europe and the Fall of Constantinople 

 

How A Marriage Might Have Prevented the Fall of Constantinople 

 

The Roman Chain of the Golden Horn

 

The American Historian Who Testified to the Existence of the Grave of Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos

 

Saint Ypomoni - Empress of the Romans (+ 1450) 

 

Saint Ypomoni as a Model for our Lives 

 

Venerable Ypomoni in the Hymnography of the Orthodox Church 

 

The Cross of Empress Helen Dragas-Palaiologos (Later known as Saint Ypomoni)

 

Saint Raphael and the Uniate Liturgy in Hagia Sophia 

 

"L'Agonie De Byzance" or "The Agony of Byzantium" (A 1913 Film About the Fall of Constantinople) 

 

Documentary: The Siege of Constantinople 

 

Documentary: 1453 - The Fall of Constantinople 

 

The 700 Club Features the Fall of Constantinople 

 

Documentary: The Fall of an Empire - The Lesson of Byzantium 

 

The Walls of Constantinople Still Stand 

 

The Iconography of the Fall of Constantinople (video) 

 

Turks Celebrate the Conquest of Constantinople 

 

When Irene Pappas Delivered a Poignant Rendition of "Ti Ypermacho Stratigo" Inside Hagia Sophia in 1983 

 

When Turks and Greeks Sing Together 

 

A Hymn to the City of Constantinople (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)