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Are We the Byzantines?

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Are We the Byzantines?
The capture and sacking of Constantinople by Turkish troops under Mohammed II, on May 29, 1453. The Turkish victory marked the end of the Byzantine Empire and the rise of the Ottomans. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Victor Davis Hanson
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When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had, up to that point, survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome.

Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”
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