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The Byzantine Empire never truly recovered from the blow dealt to it by the Crusaders.  Following the fall of the city to the Latins in 1204, the Empire was reduced to a mere shell of its former self. On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the [[Ottoman Turks]] after a long cannon bombardment. The last relatives of the Byzantine Emperor continued to rule Morea for a few years before being absorbed by the Ottoman Empire in 1460, finally ending the Palaiologos dynasty.

The Byzantine Empire never truly recovered from the blow dealt to it by the Crusaders.  Following the fall of the city to the Latins in 1204, the Empire was reduced to a mere shell of its former self. On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the [[Ottoman Turks]] after a long cannon bombardment. The last relatives of the Byzantine Emperor continued to rule Morea for a few years before being absorbed by the Ottoman Empire in 1460, finally ending the Palaiologos dynasty.

The Ottoman conquerors, whose original capital had been located in Sofa, now in [[Bulgaria]], renamed the city [[Istanbul]] and turned Agia Sophia, the great church of that city into a mosque and later into a museum.

The Ottoman conquerors, whose original capital had been located in Sofa, now in [[Bulgaria]], renamed the city [[Istanbul]] and turned Hagia Sophia, the great church of that city into a mosque and later into a museum.

== See also ==

== See also ==