The Byzantine & Ottoman Empires: Lecture 7 of 12. The Turks Take Constantinople. Rising from the ashes of the Empire of the Grand Seljuk, the Ottoman Turks relentlessly conquered the principalities of their co-religionists. But the ultimate prize was "The City," Constantinople, whose walls they breached on May 29, 1453. A lecture by Dr. William J. Neidinger.
