Name: Siege of Constantinople (1422)
Start: 1422
Location: Siege of Constantinople (1422)

Siege of Constantinople (1422) 1422

Image: Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate. Wikidata lists more than one location for this battle; the first is shown.

Key facts

Year	1422	Wikidata P585 (point in time)
Era	Medieval (500–1499)	derived from year
Location	Turkey	Natural Earth (modern borders)
Continent	Asia	Natural Earth
War / conflict	Byzantine–Ottoman War of 1421–1424	Wikidata P361
Participants	Byzantine Empire, Ottoman Empire	Wikidata P710
Coordinates	41.0122, 28.9760	Wikidata P625

About the battle

In 1422, the Ottoman Empire laid siege to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, as a result of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II's attempts to interfere in the succession of Ottoman Sultans, after the death of Mehmed I in 1421. This policy of the Byzantines was often used successfully in weakening their neighbours.

When Murad II emerged as the winning successor to his father, he marched into Byzantine territory. The Turks had acquired their own cannon for the first time by the siege of 1422, "falcons", which were short but wide cannons. The two sides were evenly matched technologically, and the Turks had to build barricades "in order to receive ... the stones of the bombards".

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