The Byzantine-Ottoman wars were a series of conflicts, beginning in 1299, between the Byzantine Greeks and the rising Ottoman Turks and their allies that culminated in the destruction of the Byzantine Empire. Already weakened by the earlier Fourth Crusade, the Byzantines under the Palaiologos dynasty never fully recovered and suffered a lengthening series of defeats at Ottoman hands, at times supported by the Republic of Genoa, the Republic of Venice, the Kingdom of Sicily, the Empire of Trebizond and other Christian powers. The wars ended with the Ottoman capture of Constantinople in 1453, formally destroying the Byzantine Empire, though several Byzantine holdouts survived until 1479.
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Source Mehmed II (Wikipedia)
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1. Wikipedia: Byzantine-Ottoman Wars
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Ottoman victory
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1299-1453
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The Byzantines, already having been in a weak state even before the dismemberment of their Empire following the Fourth Crusade, failed to recover fully under the rule of the Palaiologos dynasty.
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The Byzantine-Ottoman wars were a series of decisive conflicts between the Byzantine Greeks and Ottoman Turks and their allies that led to the final destruction of the Byzantine Empire and the rise of the Ottoman Empire.
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In 1453, at the age of 21, he conquered Constantinople and effectively brought an end to the Byzantine Empire.
Wikipedia: Fall of Constantinople
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the Byzantine-Ottoman wars
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