Constantine XIII

Constantine XIII Palæologus (1404–53), full name Kōnstantînos Dragásēs Palaiológos in Greek, was the last of the Greek emperors. He was the last Byzantine emperor (1448–53). He had to defend Constantinople against a besieging force of 300,000 under Mahomet II, and though he defended it bravely, the city was taken by storm by the Turks, and he was killed, thereafter the Eastern empire ended in 1453.

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