![]() ![]() Three people will struggle to determine the fate of an empire: the young Turkish Sultan, returned from exile and desperate to prove his greatness a stubborn Byzantine princess, sworn to protect her city and a mercenary captain with a personal score to settle. No European army will help: the last crusaders were cut to pieces by the Turks on the plains of Kosovo. It is the most fearsome force the world has ever seen. ![]() ![]() But now endless ranks of Turkish warriors cover the plains before them, their massive cannons trained on the ramparts. For more than a thousand years the mighty walls of Constantinople have protected the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, the furthest outpost of Christianity. ![]()
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