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Sack of ConstantinopleIn May 1182, the Massacre of the Latins turned Roman Catholic inhabitants of Constantinople into victims of a brutal uprising led by Andronikos Komnenos.
Fall of ConstantinopleBy 1453, the city of Constantinople stood as a ghost of its former self. A census taken in late March recorded only 4,773 Greek defenders and roughly 200…