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The first full-scale [[Sieges of Constantinople#Ottoman Sieges|Ottoman]] '''Siege of Constantinople took place in 1422''' as a result of the [[Byzantine Emperor]] [[Manuel II Palaiologos|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, using "falcons", which were short but wide cannon.<ref name="Constantinople">Stephen Turnbull, ''[http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_detail.php/title=S759X~ser=FOR The Walls of Constantinople, AD 324–1453]'', [[Osprey Publishing]], ISBN 1-84176-759-X.</ref> The two sides were evenly matched technologically, and the Turks had to build barricades "in order to receive… the stones of the bombards."<ref name="Constantinople" />

The Byzantine defenders won the battle. Contemporary Byzantine and Ottoman tradition ascribed the deliverance of Constantinople to a miraculous intervention by the [[Theotokos]].

== Aftermath ==

In spite of the Byzantine victory, the Empire at this time was facing economic problems, and Pius II promoted the affordable donation of cannon by European monarchs as a means of aid. Any new cannons after the 1422 siege were gifts from European states, and aside from these no other advances were made to the Byzantine arsenal.<ref name="Constantinople" /> As such, the next Ottoman leader, Mehmed II, would be [[Fall of Constantinople|more successful in 1453]].

== Traditions ==

Traditional accounts, starting with contemporary Byzantine and Ottoman reports, attributed the lifting of the siege to an apparition of the [[Theotokos]] upon the city walls, which greatly inspired the defenders.<ref name="Constantinople" /> [[John Cananus|John Kananos]] records that:
{{cquote|The Romans, although exhausted from fatigue, leapt and were glad… They shouted hymns to the [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Most Holy Virgin]], glorifying her from the depths of their hearts, saying "This is in truth a rich, celebrated, memorable, extraordinary and remarkable miracle worthy of admiration."}}

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+The first full-scale [[Sieges of Constantinople#Ottoman Sieges|Ottoman]] '''Siege of Constantinople took place in [[1422]]''' as a result of the [[Byzantine Emperor]] [[Manuel II Palaiologos|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, using "falcons", which were short but wide cannon.<ref name="Constantinople">Stephen Turnbull, ''[http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_detail.php/title=S759X~ser=FOR The Walls of Constantinople, AD 324–1453]'', [[Osprey Publishing]], ISBN 1-84176-759-X.</ref> The two sides were evenly matched technologically, and the Turks had to build barricades "in order to receive… the stones of the bombards."<ref name="Constantinople" />
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 Traditional accounts, starting with contemporary Byzantine and Ottoman reports, attributed the lifting of the siege to an apparition of the [[Theotokos]] upon the city walls, which greatly inspired the defenders.<ref name="Constantinople" /> [[John Cananus|John Kananos]] records that:
-{{cquote|The Romans, although exhausted from fatigue, leapt and were glad… They shouted hymns to the [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Most Holy Virgin]], glorifying her from the depths of their hearts, saying "This is in truth a rich, celebrated, memorable, extraordinary and remarkable miracle worthy of admiration."}}
+"The Romans, although exhausted from fatigue, leapt and were glad… They shouted hymns to the [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Most Holy Virgin]], glorifying her from the depths of their hearts, saying 'This is in truth a rich, celebrated, memorable, extraordinary and remarkable miracle worthy of admiration.'"
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