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When Constantinople was finally conquered by the Ottomans in 1453, did Constantine XI and his soldiers consider that they were the end of a civilization that was 2,206 years old, and the magnitude that that carried? Or did they consider the Byzantine Empire to be separate from the Roman Empire?

by /u/Redsoxjake14 in /r/AskHistorians

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