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  The Fall of Constantinople 1453 - Steven Runciman - Google Libri

  https://books.google.de/books?id=CJz8BCdxlfEC&lpg=PP1&hl=it&pg=PA50#v=onepage&q&f=false

  This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city's plight had been neglected, and negligible help was sent in this crisis. To the Turks, victory…

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  The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later ... - Steven Runciman - Google Libri

  https://books.google.de/books?id=PpjUIK8hru8C&lpg=PR2&hl=it&pg=PA176#v=onepage&q&f=false

  On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying 'Death to the French', slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. Seen in historical perspective it was not an especially big…

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