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Byzantine empire
1. THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE (476 AD-1453 AD) 476 AD SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY THE OTTOMAN TURKS
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5. DECLINE OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE The Lombards conquered parts of Italy and the Visigoths expelled the Byzantines from the Iberian Peninsula. The Muslims conquered the southern and eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea during the 7 th and 8 th centuries. At the beginning of the 15 th century only the city of Constantinople remained. In 1453 AD Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks and the Byzantine Empire disapperared.