@lnnii511: it’s istanbul btw @TrueAthenian🇬🇷☦️ #rashiduncaliphate #ottomanempire #byzantineempire #fallofconstantinople #khalidbinwalid Byzantine empire was humbled twice in history: first at the Battle of Yarmouk in 636, when a smaller Muslim army crushed its forces and ended Byzantine control over most of Syria and the Levant, and centuries later in 1453, when the Ottomans captured Constantinople after a long siege. Yarmouk broke Byzantine power in the region, while the fall of Constantinople finished the empire itself showing that even one of history’s strongest empires could be defeated and eventually erased.