The Sea of Marmara is an inland sea flanking Constantinople to the south, forming one of the two bodies of water that anchored the city's Theodosian land walls and made its defensive perimeter formidable even for a garrison of only seven thousand. During the Ottoman siege, Mehmed used it as a theater of intimidation, storming the Princes' Islands within its waters, killing the garrisons, and selling the inhabitants into slavery to demonstrate his intentions to Constantinople's defenders.
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Episode 16 (6 mentions)
The inland sea where Mehmed stormed the Princes' Islands during the siege, killing the garrison and selling the inhabitants into slavery as an act of intimidation toward Constantinople's defenders.
“He then stormed the prince's islands in the Sea of Marmara, killed the garrison, and”
“The sultan decided to change his tactics and try his luck with the lower sea walls.”
“Hope, opening up a sea route to India, and just four years after that, a little-known”
Episode 17 (1 mention)
One of the two bodies of water anchoring the Theodosian land walls, mentioned as Brownworth describes the astonishing defensive perimeter held by seven thousand Byzantine defenders in the final siege.
“even today you can walk those Theodosian land walls that still march the long miles from the Sea of Mamara to the waters of”
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