Victory Of Coins (The Judas Chronicles, #7) - Plot & Excerpts
A beautiful metropolis that is also one of the world’s largest cities, when talking about how many people actually reside within its official borders. The Ottoman Empire forged a lasting impression that is evident throughout the city. Surprisingly, religious tolerance was remarkable during the empire’s zenith years, where Judaism and Christianity were allowed as much autonomous freedom as their Muslim brethren—unheard of in other regions of the world. But the Ottomans’ reign certainly didn’t start out philanthropic. Christians were slaughtered by the thousands when Mehmed II seized control of the Byzantine capital in 1453, which under its previous name of Constantinople was once the center of the ancient Christian world. The sultan allowed his men to rape, pillage, and murder for three days before he ordered the violence to stop. Most of the surviving citizens—numbering nearly thirty thousand—were then sold into slavery. “But it could’ve been worse if it had happened when Constantinople was the celebrated seat of the Byzantium Empire.
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