Brownworth marks Constantine Palaiologos as the end point of Byzantine history, describing him dying in the streets of Constantinople fighting the Turks in 1453. He notes that Palaiologos was the 137th emperor in an unbroken line stretching all the way back to Augustus Caesar.
Also known as: Constantine XI Palaiologos · Constantine Palaeologus
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Brownworth marks Constantine Palaiologos as the end point of Byzantine history, describing him dying in the streets of Constantinople fighting the Turks in 1453. He notes that Palaiologos was the 137th emperor in an unbroken line stretching all the way back to Augustus Caesar.
“or even surpass that of Rome. It ends in 1453 with the death of the Emperor Constantine Palaeologus,”
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