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How the Ottoman Super-Cannon Destroyed 1,000 Years of Empire

The year is 1453. Constantinople — the greatest city on Earth for over 1,000 years — is about to fall. Behind its legendary walls stand just 7,000 exhausted defenders. Outside, 80,000 Ottoman soldiers and the largest cannon the world has ever seen. This is the story of how a Hungarian engineer named Orban first offered his world-changing weapon to the Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI... who couldn't afford to pay him. So Orban walked across the border and sold his services to Sultan Mehmed II instead. That single decision — a matter of money — ended 2,206 years of Roman history. In this video, we explore: ⚔️ The construction of the legendary Basilica cannon ⚔️ Why Constantinople's "impenetrable" walls had never fallen in 23 sieges ⚔️ The impossible moment when Ottoman ships sailed over mountains ⚔️ The final midnight service in the Hagia Sophia ⚔️ Emperor Constantine XI's last stand and mysterious disappearance ⚔️ How Mehmed the Conqueror transformed the ancient city The fall of Constantinople didn't just end an empire — it changed the course of Western civilization forever. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING: "1453: The Holy War for Constantinople" by Roger Crowley "The Fall of Constantinople 1453" by Steven Runciman "Byzantium: The Decline and Fall" by John Julius Norwich ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe for more epic history stories 👍 Like if you learned something new 💬 Comment: Could Constantinople have been saved? #Constantinople #Ottoman #History #Byzantine #Rome #Mehmed #1453 #HistoricalDocumentary #AncientHistory #MilitaryHistory