المحاولات العثمانية لفتح القسطنطينية (1299-1453)‎

الملخص EN

The conquest of Constantinople is considered one of the most important events in world history, especially the history of Europe and its relationship with Islam.

European historians and those who followed them considered it the end of the middle ages and the beginning of modern times.

as for the effects of this clear conquest in the Islamic East we say that joy and jubilation prevailed throughout Asia and Africa.

this conquest was the dream of the ancestors and the hope of generations.

the ottomans took two basic strategies to reach their goal of conquering constantinople.

encircling it from the east and west by occupying the surrounding cities and lands.

as for the second strategy.

it was complementary to the previous one and took the form of an actual siege and the fruits of those attempts were crowned with success in 1453.