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Today in history, on May 29, 1453, the sword of Islam scored one of its greatest victories—the sack of New Rome.
Of all of Islam’s conquests of Christian territory, this was by far the most symbolically significant. For not only was New Rome—more commonly known as Constantinople—a living and direct extension of the old Roman Empire and current capital of the Christian Roman Empire (or “Byzantium”), but its cyclopean walls had prevented Islam from entering Europe through its eastern doorway for the previous seven centuries, beginning with the First Arab Siege of Constantinople (674-678).
[Source](https://raymondibrahim.substack.com/p/today-rome-died)
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Today in history, on May 29, 1453, the sword of Islam scored one of its greatest victories—the sack of New Rome.
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Of all of Islam’s conquests of Christian territory, this was by far the most symbolically significant. For not only was New Rome—more commonly known as Constantinople—a living and direct extension of the old Roman Empire and current capital of the Christian Roman Empire (or “Byzantium”), but its cyclopean walls had prevented Islam from entering Europe through its eastern doorway for the previous seven centuries, beginning with the First Arab Siege of Constantinople (674-678).
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