Palaeologus
Americannoun
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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
Palaeologus to Pope Martin V. to negotiate the union of the Churches.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen
He had displaced a Palaeologus by an Osmanli only in order that an empire long in fact Osmanli should henceforth be so also de jure.
From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Nevill Forbes
In 1393 he was sent to Italy by the emperor Manuel Palaeologus to implore the aid of the Christian princes against the Turks.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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