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Events relating to the byzantine empire
The new Mameluke dynasty in Egypt begins a systematic campaign to drive the Crusaders out of the Middle East
Osman inherits the leadership of the tribal group later known by a version of his name, as the Ottoman Turks
In the space of a few months the Muslims take the last four crusader castles, Tyre, Sidon, Acre and finally Beirut
The Knights Templars withdraw from the island of Arwad, the last foothold of the crusaders in the Middle East
Gallipoli is taken by the Ottoman Turks, giving them their first foothold in Europe
Victory at Kosovo gives the Ottoman Turks control over Serbia, which becomes a vassal state
The Ottoman sultan Bayazid I brings the Slav kingdom of Bulgaria under his control
The Turks terrify Constantinople by lobbing vast stones at the city from a 19-ton bombard of cast iron
Constantinople falls to a 21-year-old Muslim conqueror, Mehmed II, bringing the Ottoman Turks their capital city
The Christian emperor Constantine XI dies in the fighting in Constantinople, as the Greek Byzantine empire yields to that of the Ottoman Turks
The Turks complete the occupation of Greece, which remains within the Ottoman empire until the nineteenth century
Mehmed II, conqueror of Constantinople, begins to build Topkapi Sarayi as his palace
The name of Constantinople changes to Istanbul, a word based on the everyday Greek name for the city
