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en-wikipedia-org-2306		Fall of Constantinople - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	12698	1376	75	The attacking Ottoman army, which significantly outnumbered Constantinople's defenders, was commanded by the 21-year-old Sultan Mehmed II (later called "the Conqueror"), while the Byzantine army was led by Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos. The conquest of Constantinople and the fall of the Byzantine Empire[8] was a key event of the Late Middle Ages and is sometimes considered the end of the Medieval period.[9] The city's fall also stood as a turning point in military history. For some time Greek scholars had gone to Italian city-states, a cultural exchange begun in 1396 by Coluccio Salutati, chancellor of Florence, who had invited Manuel Chrysoloras, a Byzantine scholar to lecture at the University of Florence.[71] After the conquest many Greeks, such as John Argyropoulos and Constantine Lascaris, fled the city and found refuge in the Latin West, bringing with them knowledge and documents from the Greco-Roman tradition to Italy and other regions that further propelled the Renaissance.[72][73] Those Greeks who stayed behind in Constantinople mostly lived in the Phanar and Galata districts of the city.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2306.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2306.txt