Views from North Cecil
=History and Art at "Cookie Heights" Parson Street=(1926)
Thursday, March 18
1453 Chain of Mehmed II at Constantinople
The chain, which the
Byzantines
stretched across the mouth of the
Golden Horn
to keep out the navy of
Mehmed II
in 1453 during the
siege of Constantinople
. On display in the
Istanbul Military Museum
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