MAWAQIT
MAWAQIT
Mehmed II takes the city after 53 days of siege; eleven centuries of Byzantium end and Istanbul begins.
Three thousand meet the Byzantine frontier army east of the Jordan; the three appointed commanders fall one after another.
Al-Manṣūr breaks ground on the Round City between the rivers — capital of the ʿAbbāsids and, soon, of the world’s learning.