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27 BC - Auguus became emperor, the end of the republic
395 AD - Division of the Roman empire into a Western and an Eastern half
476 AD - German king Odoaker dethroned West Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus
1204 - Crusaders conquer Constantinople
1453 - the Ottomans conquered Constantinople, the end of theEast Roman empire
1806 - Emperor Franz II denounced the end of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation
1917 - The end of the Russian empire (3rd Rome)
Thanks. They missed 1922 - dissolution of the Ottoman empire.
The Ottomans claimed to be a continuation of the Roman empire and even adopted the Star and Crescent from Constantinople. ☪️
Turkey even kept the name Constantinople until 1930.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
It's still called that in Greek.
But it has also been called Istanbul for hundreds of years by the locals, and eventually Turkey switched. Istanbul is actually from Greek "to the city", but they thought it was more Turkish than Constantinople.
I have a slight preference to calling it Roma Constantinopolitana, but I don't know if the locals would be up for it.
I appreciate your serious response and apologize for wasting your time on what was a dumb reference:
https://youtu.be/0XlO39kCQ-8
Ahhh, I thought I was missing something. Thanks for the reference. K love that song.
That's nobody's business but the Turks'