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The young Ottoman Sultan, Mehmet II, who reigned from 1451 to 1481, set about cutting off Constantinople’s supply lines.
In 1453, they took Constantinople, and immediately made it their capital, renaming it Istanbul.
As Constantinople, jewel of the Byzantine Empire, it was for more than 1,000 years the most important city in Christendom.
On the international scene, the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453 closed Genoa’s Black Sea markets, but competitor Venice worked out a new deal in Cyprus and even a modus vivendi in Constantinople itself.
After 15 years, the Turkish commander, Hussein Pasha, was summoned back to Constantinople and publicly strangled for his failure to take the city.