Anti-Greek riots of September 1955 in Constantinople (Istanbul) |
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The attacks against the Constantinopolitan Greeks in September 1955 took place in the context formed by the tension in the Greek-Turkish relations in the middle of ’50s. The nationalistic outburst in Turkey because of the Cypriot question had already formed an explosive situation in Constantinople, which deteriorated after the news about the attack on the consulate of Turkey in Thessaloniki. Nowadays, almost all the researchers agree that the following extensive assaults begun on government’s... |
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Fall of Constantinople, 1453 |
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On the 29th of May 1453, the Ottoman sultan Muhammad II captured Constantinople, after a siege that lasted about two months. During the siege the last emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos died. Although the Byzantine State had long ceased to be a power to be reckoned with, the symbolic and the emotional appeal of the fall was important, since it formally marked the end of the Eastern Christian Roman Empire as well. |
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Intervention of the Entente powers in Constantinople |
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Revolution of the Young Turks |
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A presentation of the origins, the making and the activity of the Young Turks' movement in the Ottoman Empire, and a critical evaluation of the relevant bibiliography. |
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