Editing Fall of Constantinople (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Siege of Constantinople fresco, Moldovița monastery, Vatra Moldoviței, 2017.jpg|thumb|Siege of Constantinople on a mural at the [[Moldovița Monastery]] in Romania, painted in 1537]]

===Legends===
There are many legends in Greece surrounding the Fall of Constantinople. It was said that [[May 1453 lunar eclipse|the partial lunar eclipse]] that occurred on 22 May 1453 represented a fulfilment of a prophecy of the city's demise.<ref name="L0Kni" />

Four days later, the whole city was blotted out by a thick [[fog]], a condition unknown in that part of the world in May. When the fog lifted that evening, a strange light was seen playing about the dome of the [[Hagia Sophia]], which some interpreted as the [[Holy Spirit in Christianity|Holy Spirit]] departing from the city. "This evidently indicated the departure of the Divine Presence, and its leaving the City in total abandonment and desertion, for the Divinity conceals itself in cloud and appears and again disappears."{{sfnp|Kritovoulos|1954|p=59}}

For others, there was still a distant hope that the lights were the campfires of the troops of [[John Hunyadi]] who had come to relieve the city. It is possible that all these phenomena were local effects of the cataclysmic [[1452/1453 mystery eruption]] which occurred around the time of the siege. The "fire" seen may have been an optical illusion due to the reflection of intensely red twilight glow by clouds of volcanic ash high in the atmosphere.<ref name="nasakuwae" />

Another legend holds that two priests saying [[divine liturgy]] over the crowd disappeared into the cathedral's walls as the first Turkish soldiers entered. According to the legend, the priests will appear again on the day that Constantinople returns to Christian hands.{{sfnp|Runciman|1965|p=147}} Another legend refers to the ''Marble Emperor'' ([[Constantine XI Palaiologos|Constantine XI]]), holding that an angel rescued the emperor when the Ottomans entered the city, turning him into marble and placing him in a cave under the earth near the Golden Gate, where he waits to be brought to life again (a variant of the [[sleeping hero]] legend).<ref name="3otvo" /><ref name="hatzfallhec" /> However, many of the myths surrounding the disappearance of Constantine were developed later and little evidence can be found to support them even in friendly primary accounts of the siege.

===Cultural impact===
[[File:Zonaro GatesofConst.jpg|thumb|[[Mehmed the Conqueror]] enters Constantinople, painting by [[Fausto Zonaro]]]]

[[Guillaume Dufay]] composed several songs lamenting the fall of the Eastern church, and the [[duke of Burgundy]], [[Philip the Good]], [[Feast of the Pheasant|avowed]] to take up arms against the Turks. However, as the growing Ottoman power from this date on coincided with the [[Protestant Reformation]] and subsequent [[Counter-Reformation]], the recapture of Constantinople became an ever-distant dream. Even France, once a fervent participant in the Crusades, [[Franco-Ottoman alliance|became an ally of the Ottomans]].

Nonetheless, depictions of Christian coalitions taking the city and of the late Emperor's resurrection by [[Leo the Wise]] persisted.{{sfnp|Mango|2002|p=280}}

29 May 1453, the day of the fall of Constantinople, fell on a Tuesday, and since then [[Tuesday]] has been considered an unlucky day by Greeks generally.<ref name="QMrK6" />

===Impact on the Renaissance===
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The migration waves of [[Byzantine]] scholars and émigrés in the period following the [[Siege of Constantinople|sacking of Constantinople]] and the fall of Constantinople in 1453 is considered by many scholars key to the revival of [[ancient Greece|Greek]] and [[ancient Rome|Roman]] studies that led to the development of the [[Renaissance humanism]]<ref name="Byzantines in Renaissance Italy" />{{better source needed|reason=Tall claim requires high-quality academic citation, not a website|date=November 2016}} and [[History of science in the Renaissance|science]]. These émigrés were grammarians, humanists, poets, writers, printers, lecturers, musicians, astronomers, architects, academics, artists, scribes, philosophers, scientists, politicians and theologians.<ref name="v5gnl" />{{better source needed|date=November 2016}} They brought to Western Europe the far greater preserved and accumulated knowledge of Byzantine civilization. According to the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'': "Many modern scholars also agree that the exodus of Greeks to Italy as a result of this event marked the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance".<ref name="Fall of Constantinople"/>

===Renaming of the city===
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Ottomans used the Arabic transliteration of the city's name "Qosṭanṭīniyye" (القسطنطينية) or "Kostantiniyye", as can be seen in numerous Ottoman documents. ''Islambol'' ({{lang|ota|اسلامبول}}, ''Full of Islam'') or ''Islambul'' (''find Islam'') or ''Islam(b)ol'' (''old [[Turkic languages|Turkic]]: be Islam''), both in [[Turkish language|Turkish]], were [[folk etymology|folk-etymological]] adaptations of ''Istanbul'' created after the Ottoman conquest of 1453 to express the city's new role as the capital of the Islamic Ottoman Empire. It is first attested shortly after the conquest, and its invention was ascribed by some contemporary writers to [[Mehmed II]] himself.<ref name= "istanbulunadlari" />

The [[Names of Istanbul|name of Istanbul]] is thought to be derived from the Greek phrase ''īs tīmbolī(n)'' ({{langx|el|εἰς τὴν πόλιν}}, [[transliteration|translit.]] ''eis tēn pólin'', "to the City"), and it is claimed that it had already spread among the Turkish populace of the Ottoman Empire before the conquest. However, Istanbul only became the official name of the city in 1930 by the revised Turkish Postal Law.<ref name="ZooPt" /><ref name= "DwbQb" /><ref name="YEruk" />