Which major city, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, an event widely cited by historians as marking the end of the Middle Ages?

💡 Explanation:

The siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453 marked the destruction of the last remnant of the Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire) and is frequently used by historians to demarcate the end of the Medieval era and the beginning of the Early Modern period.