Constantine XI
Britishnoun
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Perhaps twenty thousand people were left to defend it, including the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaeologus, who died fighting for his city.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
When Mohammed II in 1453 wrested Constantinople from the last of the Caesars, Constantine XI Palaeologus, he barely missed capturing the papal ambassador, Cardinal Isidore of Russia, as an extra prize.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inside the battered city, Emperor Constantine XI, last of the 1,000-year-old Byzantine line, delivered a speech to his followers which Historian Edward Gibbon was to call "the funeral oration of the Roman Empire."
From Time Magazine Archive
Phocas, takes Candia, 228; emperor, 229; wars of, 231; murdered by Zimisces, 232 Nicholas V., pope, sends aid to Constantine XI.,
From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick
Constantine XI, the last of the Greek Emperors, knelt in the great church of St. Sophia to receive for the last time the Holy Sacrament.
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)
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