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The young Ottoman Sultan, Mehmet II, who reigned from 1451 to 1481, set about cutting off Constantinople’s supply lines.
Naples held on to its autonomy by combining links with Rome and Constantinople.
The 700-year-old Fondaco dei Turchi was a warehouse for the merchants of Constantinople, now the Natural History Museum.
Constantinople was taken by Crusader forces in 1204, and they stripped the city of manyof its finest treasures — which now grace the public buildings of Venice — although a large consignment of books and manuscripts was transferred to the monastery at Patmos before the city fell.
Most worrying were the Seljuk Turks, who came out of the east in the 11th century to wrest large parts of Asia Minor from Constantinople’s control.