Siege of Constantinople (1422)

Siege of Constantinople
	Part of the Rise of the Ottoman Empire and Byzantine-Ottoman wars.
	; Constantinople in 1422; the oldest surviving map of the city
Date	10 June – September 1422
Location	Constantinople; (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Result	Byzantine victory
Belligerents
Byzantine Empire	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
John VIII Palaiologos; Manuel II Palaiologos;	Murad II; Mihaloğlu Mehmed Bey;

In 1422, the Ottoman Empire laid siege to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, as a result of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II's attempts to interfere in the succession of Ottoman Sultans, after the death of Mehmed I in 1421. This policy of the Byzantines was often used successfully in weakening their neighbours.

When Murad II emerged as the winning successor to his father, he marched into Byzantine territory. The Turks had acquired their own cannon for the first time by the siege of 1422, "falcons", which were short but wide cannons.^[1] The two sides were evenly matched technologically, and the Turks had to build barricades "in order to receive ... the stones of the bombards".^[1]

^ ^a ^b Stephen Turnbull, The Walls of Constantinople, AD 324–1453. Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Osprey Publishing, ISBN 1-84176-759-X.

[Constantinople-1] Stephen Turnbull, The Walls of Constantinople, AD 324–1453. Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Osprey Publishing, ISBN 1-84176-759-X.

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